Abstract

The emergence of sea surface current has a significant impact on electromagnetic (EM) backscattering signals. This may be one of important synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging mechanisms of ocean currents. Fractal sea surface ocean wave-current model is derived based on the mechanism of wave current interaction in this paper. A effective EM backscattering model of one dimensional drifting fractal sea surface is presented. numerical results show that both magnitude and direction of ocean current have effects on EM backscattering signals from one dimensional ocean wave-current coupled fractal sea surface. The existence of ocean currents which paralleling to the direction of wave can weaken EM backscattering signal intensity. EM backscattering signal intensity can be strengthened by ocean currents propagating in the opposing direction of wave.

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