Russian Federation
Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation
Russian Federation
UDC 528.88
UDC 551.326.02
UDC 621.396.96
UDC 55
UDC 550.34
UDC 550.383
CSCSTI 37.01
CSCSTI 37.15
CSCSTI 37.25
CSCSTI 37.31
CSCSTI 38.01
CSCSTI 36.00
CSCSTI 37.00
CSCSTI 38.00
CSCSTI 39.00
CSCSTI 52.00
Russian Classification of Professions by Education 05.00.00
Russian Library and Bibliographic Classification 26
Russian Trade and Bibliographic Classification 63
BISAC SCI SCIENCE
This study addresses the challenge of understanding sea ice microwave scattering properties by developing a novel method to retrieve scattering indicatrix and angular dependence of backscattering patterns from Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) data. Sea ice remote sensing in quasi-specular reflection area requires theoretical models validated using experimental data across different frequency bands. However, only limited observations of quasispecular scattering in the L-band exist. We developed an algorithm to convert Doppler spectra from delay-Doppler maps (DDM) obtained by the TDS-1 satellite into scattering indicatrix and then to angular dependence of the sea ice backscattering patterns, using geometric transformations from bistatic sensing geometry. The method was applied to approximately 100 DDM measurements over the Sea of Okhotsk during February–March 2017, where ice concentration remained at 90–100% with temperatures below 0 °C. Results show that L-band (19 cm wavelength) exhibits broader angular dependence compared to Ka-band (8.45 mm) and Ku-band (2.21 cm) measurements from dual-frequency precipitation radar (DPR), contrary to expectations based solely on surface roughness. This anomalous broadening is attributed to volume scattering effects within sea ice, where L-band signals penetrate up to one meter depth compared to millimeter-scale penetration in Ka- and Kufrequency bands. The findings provide new insights into L-band scattering mechanisms and offer a validated approach for improving theoretical models of sea ice microwave interaction.
bistatic, scattering indicatrix, angular dependence of backscattering, sea ice, remote sensing, L-band, GPS, TDS-1, GNSS-R
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