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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2017.28.10.788

Accuracy Verification of Theoretical Models for Estimating Microwave Reflection from Rough Sea Surfaces  

Park, Sinmyong (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University)
Oh, Yisok (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University)
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Abstract
This paper presents the verification of accuracies of theoretical models for calculating the microwave reflections from rough sea surfaces. First of all, the Pierson-Moskowitz ocean spectrum was used to generate the rough sea surfaces. Then the relationship between the significant wave heights, root-mean-square(RMS) heights and wind speed was derived by estimating the significant wave heights and RMS heights of the generated sea surfaces according to various wind speeds, and compared the derived relationship with other measurement data sets. The reflection coefficients of the sea surfaces were calculated by using a numerical method(the moment method). Then, the numerical results were compared with Ament model, PO(Physical Optics) model, GO(Geometrical Optics) model and B-M(Brown-Miller) model for various roughness conditions(wind speed) and incidence angles. It was found that the Ament model is not accurate except for a very low roughness conditions($kh_{rms}$<0.4, k is wavenumber and $h_{rms}$ is RMS height). It was also found that at incidence angles lower than $70^{\circ}$, the PO and the GO models agree well with the numerical results, while the B-M model agrees well with the numerical analysis results at incidence angles higher than $80^{\circ}$ for very rough sea surfaces with $kh_{rms}$>10.
Keywords
Microwave Reflection; Rough Sea Surface; PO Model; GO Model; Brown-Miller Model;
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