Backscattering from capillary waves with application to sea clutter

1 November 1966

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Vol. 14 (6) , 749-754
https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.1966.1138799

Abstract

The results of measurements atX-band of backscattering from water waves of amplitude less than about 0.01 wavelength and with wavelengths of the order of the microwave length are presented and compared with theory. The measurements have been made for both vertical and horizontal polarizations for grazing angles between4\degand80\deg. The results both as to angular dependence and absolute magnitude are in agreement with the theory. The ratio of vertical to horizontal backscattering cross section calculated from the theory is compared with that measured on the open sea.

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