A new modulation transfer function for ocean wave spectra retrieval from X-band marine radar imagery

作     者：陈忠彪 张彪 何宜军 丘仲锋 PERRIE William 

作者机构：Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Bedford Institute of Oceanography 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology》 (中国海洋湖沼学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第33卷第5期

页      面：1132-1141页

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学科分类：08[工学] 0816[工学-测绘科学与技术] 

基　　金：Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program)(No.2013AA09A505) the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41076119,41176160,41476158) the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD) the Natural Science Youth Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK2012467) the Natural Science State Key Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK2011008) the National Natural Science Youth Foundation of China(No.41206171) the Startup Foundation for Introducing Talent of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology(No.S8113078001) 

主　　题：X-band marine radar modulation transfer function ocean wave spectra 

摘      要：When imaging ocean surface waves by X-band marine radar, the radar backscatter from the sea surface is modulated by the long surface gravity waves. The modulation transfer function （MTF） comprises tilt, hydrodynamic, and shadowing modulations. A conventional linear MTF was derived using HH-polarized radar observations under conditions of deep water. In this study, we propose a new quadratic polynomial MTF based on W-polarized radar measurements taken from heterogeneous nearshore wave fields. This new MTF is obtained using a radar-observed image spectrum and in situ buoy-measured wave frequency spectrum. We validate the MTF by comparing peak and mean wave periods retrieved from X-band marine radar image sequences with those measured by the buoy. It is shown that the retrieval accuracies of peak and mean wave periods of the new MTF are better than the conventional MTF. The results also show that the bias and root mean square errors of the peak and mean wave periods of the new MTF are 0.05 and 0.88 s, and 0.32 and 0.53 s, respectively, while those of the conventional MTF are 0.61 and 0.98 s, and 1.39 and 1.48 s, respectively. Moreover, it is also shown that the retrieval results are insensitive to the coefficients in the proposed MTF.