Polarimetric Passive Remote Sensing
Abstract
We seek to understand and predict the evolution of the brightness temperature (four Stokes parameters) of wind-driven foam-covered ocean surfaces. The correlation of polarimetric variation is studied as function of the medium state, modeled as a rough surface (ocean) overlayed by a random medium (foam). Many independent results are obtain by using a wide variety of electromagnetic techniques, such as radiative transfer, integral equation, finite-difference time-domain, etc. Depending on the technique chosen, the foam coverage is modeled as either a dense medium composed of densely packed scatterers, a dielectric layer of non-uniform thickness or a succession of volumetric scatterers.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA624669
Entities
People
- Bowei Wu
- C. O. Ao
- Jinau Kong
- T. M. Grzegorczyk
- Yinglong Zhang
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology