Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, Volume. 31, Issue 6, 1648(2011)

Simulation and Analysis of Polarization Characteristics for Real Sea Surface Sunglint

CHEN Xing-feng1,2,3、*, GU Xing-fa1,2,3,4, CHENG Tian-hai1,2,3, LI Zheng-qiang1,2,4, YU Tao1,2,3, and XIE Dong-hai1,2,3
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    The sea surface sunglint is caused by specular reflectance. Water is a kind of dark target with a very low reflectance, so sunglint becomes a big noise in the aerial or aerospace remote sensing images; sunglint is strongly polarized, and can be a natural standard light source for polarized sensor in-flight calibration; sunglint also can be utilized to retrieve gaseous constituents and aerosol properties. For both de-noising and being standard light source, the radiative physic parameters should be calculated accurately. First, A 3-D sea surface model was constituted according to the Cox & Munk model; Second, the polarized radiative model of sunglint was deduced based on the 3-D sea surface model and polarized Fresnel reflectance law; Third, the sensitivities of solar-viewing relative azimuth, zenith, wind speed and wind direction were analyzed utilizing the polarized radiative model. The polarization characteristics analysis of sunglint provides a theoretical basis for the quantitative remote sensing retrievals which uses sunglint.

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    CHEN Xing-feng, GU Xing-fa, CHENG Tian-hai, LI Zheng-qiang, YU Tao, XIE Dong-hai. Simulation and Analysis of Polarization Characteristics for Real Sea Surface Sunglint[J]. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2011, 31(6): 1648

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jul. 18, 2010

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jan. 5, 2012

    The Author Email: Xing-feng CHEN (chenxf@irsa.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3964/j.issn.1000-0593(2011)06-1648-06

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