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A Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can form high resolution images of the sea surface. The direct problem for such an imaging system is now reasonably well understood and is summarised here for both the SAR image and its power spectrum. The inverse problem has only recently been explored and some simple approaches based on linear demodulation and speckle removal are described. These are applied to a number of SEASAT images.
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Rotheram, S., Macklin, J.T. (1985). Inverse Methods for Ocean Wave Imaging by SAR. In: Boerner, WM., et al. Inverse Methods in Electromagnetic Imaging. NATO ASI Series, vol 143. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5271-3_11
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