YANG Chan-Su, PARK Seong-Min, OH Yisok, OUCHI Kazuo. An analysis of the radar backscatter from oil-covered sea surfaces using moment method and Monte-Carlo simulation: preliminary results[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2013, 32(1): 59-67. doi: 10.1007/s13131-013-0267-7
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YANG Chan-Su, PARK Seong-Min, OH Yisok, OUCHI Kazuo. An analysis of the radar backscatter from oil-covered sea surfaces using moment method and Monte-Carlo simulation: preliminary results[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2013, 32(1): 59-67. doi: 10.1007/s13131-013-0267-7
YANG Chan-Su, PARK Seong-Min, OH Yisok, OUCHI Kazuo. An analysis of the radar backscatter from oil-covered sea surfaces using moment method and Monte-Carlo simulation: preliminary results[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2013, 32(1): 59-67. doi: 10.1007/s13131-013-0267-7
Citation:
YANG Chan-Su, PARK Seong-Min, OH Yisok, OUCHI Kazuo. An analysis of the radar backscatter from oil-covered sea surfaces using moment method and Monte-Carlo simulation: preliminary results[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2013, 32(1): 59-67. doi: 10.1007/s13131-013-0267-7
Korea Ocean Satellite Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology(KIOST), Ansan 426-744, Republic of Korea;Marine Environmental System Science, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-350, Republic of Korea
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ISR R & D Laboratory, LIG Nex1 Company, Yongin 446-744, Republic of Korea
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Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering, Hongik University, Seoul 121-791, Republic of Korea
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Department of Computer Science, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka 239-8686, Japan
An analysis of the radar backscattering from the ocean surface covered by oil spill is presented using a microwave scattering model and Monte-Carlo simulation. In the analysis, a one-dimensional rough sea surface is numerically generated with an ocean waveheight spectrum for a given wind velocity. A two-layered medium is then generated by adding a thin oil layer on the simulated rough sea surface. The electric fields backscattered from the sea surface with two-layered medium are computed with the method of moments (MoM), and the backscattering coefficients are statistically obtained with N independent samples for each oil-spilled surface using the Monte-Carlo technique for various conditions of surface roughness, oil-layer thickness, frequency, polarization and incidence angle. The numerical simulation results are compared with theoretical models for clean sea surfaces and SAR images of an oil-spilled sea surface caused by the Hebei (Hebei province, China) Spirit oil tanker in 2007. Further, conditions for better oil spill extraction are sought by the numerical simulation on the effects of wind speed and oil-layer thickness at different incidence angles on the backscattering coefficients.
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