January 1982 VOLUME 7 NUMBER 1 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Signature problems in microwave remote sensing of the surface of the earth

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

INTRODUCTION
Richard K. Moore Introduction 1

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS
Lyle C. Schroeder, William L. Grantham, John L. Mitchell, and Jon L. Sweet SASS measurements of the Ku -band radar signature of the ocean 3
G. Paul De Loor and Peter Hoogeboom Radar backscatter measurements from Platform Noordwijk in the North Sea 15
A. L. Gray, R. K. Hawkins, C. E. Livingstone, L. Drapier Arsenault, and W. M. Johnstone Simultaneous scatterometer and radiometer measurements of sea-ice microwave signatures 20
A. I. Ginsburg, A. M. Shutko, M. A. Antipychev, and A. G. Grankov Microwave radiation from water surface as related to its temperature variations in the presence of ripples (a laboratory study) 33
A. M. Shutko, B. M. Liberman, and G. I. Chuhray On the influence of dielectric property variations on the microwave radiation of a water surface 35
A. M. Shutko and A. G. Grankov Some peculiarities of formulation and solution of inverse problems in microwave radiometry of the ocean surface and atmosphere 40
Robert G. Onstott, R. K. Moore, S. Gogineni, and C. Delker Four years of low-altitude sea ice broad-band backscatter measurements 44

REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS
Ferial M. El-Hawary and William J. Vetter Event enhancement of reflections from subsurface layered media 51
Kazuo Taguchi and Kazuo Sao Errors of Decca LOP due to the metal structure of a ship 59

BOOK REVIEWS
Thomas W. Thompson Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar for Oceanography 62