A novel dual-mode microwave scatterometer system has been designed and fabricated for remote sensing. This dissertation describes the sensor and presents unique C- and Ku-band ocean surface radar backscatter measurements obtained with it during flights on NASA C-130 and P-3 aircraft. Anisotropic C-band normalized radar cross section measurements obtained for a limited range of ocean surface windspeeds with a spinning antenna are presented. These measurements are potentially free of errors that corrupt similar measurements made with fixed-azimuth airborne scatterometers during "circle-flights". Also presented, for the first time, are open-ocean observations of the electromagnetic (EM) bias at C- and Ku-bands.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-2615 |
Date | 01 January 1989 |
Creators | McLaughlin, David Joseph |
Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text |
Source | Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest |
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