Numerical Pseudo-Random Simulation of SAR Sea and Wind Response

Abstract

Wind and wave data from SAR imagery over the oceans have been routinely employed for many years, and the techniques to extract such data are a well established field of research. The paper presents a different method, based the well established two wavelength models, whereby the surface slope is simulated by numerically generating the instantaneous water height. The numerical approach seems to offer a greater flexibility granting a much greater freedom to introduce fully non linear and non spectral effects in the short wavelength.