The observability of marine weather conditions using the electromagnetic waves scattering from the sea surface: A statistical analysis

The aim of this work is to quantify the observability of marine weather conditions using the bistatic Normalized Radar Cross Section (NRCS) from the sea surface. The mathematical model of the sea surface profiles is obtained from the Elfouhaily's spectrum and the NRCS are calculated using the Method of Moments (MoM). All of NRCS are recorded in some data sets depending on the weather conditions. Using the the T-value and the Linear Discriminant Analysis, we evaluate the contrast of the data sets, meaning the observability of the weather conditions as the function of the incident angle, scattering angle and the polarization types (hh, vv, vh, hv).