The dependence of sea SAR image distribution parameters on surface wave characteristics

Abstract

Modeling the statistical distribution of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is essential for sea target detection, which is an important aspect of marine SAR applications. The main goal of this study is to determine the effects of sea states and surface wave texture characteristics on the statistical distributions of sea SAR images. A statistical analysis of the Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) wave mode images (imagettes), covering a variety of sea states and wave conditions, was carried out to investigate the suitability of the statistical distributions often used in the literature for sea states parameters. The results revealed the variation in the distribution paramete..