Work

Third Stokes parameter emission from a periodic water surface

Year: 1993

Type: article

Abstract: An experiment in which the third Stokes parameter thermal emission from a periodic water surface was measured is documented. This parameter is shown to be related to the direction of periodicity of the periodic surface and to approach brightnesses of up to 30 K at X-band for the surface used in the experiment. The surface actually analyzed was a "two-layer" periodic surface; the theory of thermal emission from such a surface is derived and the theoretical results are found to be in good agreement with the experimental measurements. These results further the idea of using the third Stokes parameter emission as an indicator of wind direction over the ocean.>

Source: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

DOI: 10.1109/36.263778

Authors: J.T. Johnson, J.A. Kong, R.T. Shin, D.H. Staelin, K. O'Neill, A.W. Lananick

Institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Language: English

Topic: Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing

Subfield: Oceanography

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Naval Research

Award: G8876996369