Two-Scale Model for the Evaluation of Sea-Surface Scattering in GNSS-R Ship-Detection Applications

Ocean GNSS-R is successfully being employed to retrieve wind speed from GNSS signals scattered by the sea surface. To obtain a sufficient scattered field intensity from the ocean surface, the receiver acquires data when it is located along the specular reflection direction. However, new applications of GNSS-R are being explored, among which ship-detection. In this case, scattering from the ocean represents the clutter to be suppressed, so that a different geometry, where the GNSS signals are received in backscattering configuration, is preferable to the forward scattering one. In this new geometry, the Geometric Optics, usually employed in the GNSS-R scientific community, is often no more appropriate to model scattering from the sea surface, and different scattering models must be used. To this aim, we here introduce the Polarimetric Two-Scale Model to evaluate the intensity of the GNSS backscattered signal.

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