October 1985 VOLUME 10 NUMBER 4 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Advances in electromagnetic remote sensing of the ocean

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

GUEST EDITORIAL
Adrian K. Fung and David E. Weissman Guest editorial 343

INVITED PAPERS
Lyle C. Schroeder, Philip R. Schaffner, John L. Mitchell, and W. Linwood Jones AAFE RADSCAT 13.9-GHz measurements and analysis: Wind-speed signature of the ocean 346
John C. Curlander, Benjamin Holt, and Kevin J. Hussey Determination of sea ice motion using digital SAR imagery 358
Dennis B. Trizna A model for Doppler peak spectral shift for low grazing angle sea scatter 368
Edward J. Walsh, D. W. Hancock III, D. E. Hines, Robert N. Swift, and John F. Scott Elimination of directional wave spectrum contamination from noise in elevation measurements 376
Kenneth E. Steele, Joseph Chi-Kin Lau, and Yuan-Huang L. Hsu Theory and application of calibration techniques for an NDBC directional wave measurements buoy 382
Malcolm L. Heron Line broadening on HF ocean surface radar backscatter spectra 397
Kenneth R. Allen and Richard I. Joseph Spectra of the above-surface magnetic fields predicted by a canonical model of oceanic internal waves 402
Anatolij M. Shutko The status of the passive microwave sensing of the waters--Lakes, seas, and oceans--Under the variation of their state, temperature, and mineralization (salinity): Models, experiments, examples of application 418
Lee S. Miller and Chester L. Parsons The effect of microwave backscatter uncertainty of satellite radar altimeter accuracy 438

INVITED COMMUNICATIONS
Satish K. Srivastava and John Walsh An analysis of the second-order Doppler return from the ocean surface 443
Stephen L. Durden and John F. Vesecky A physical radar cross-section model for a wind-driven sea with swell 445
Stephen P. Haimbach and Jin Wu Field trials of an optical scanner for studying sea-surface fine structures 451

PAPERS
Lester R. LeBlanc and Douglas A. Estrich A simplified method of obtaining the response of structures from large data banks of wave power spectral densities 454
Dana R. Yoerger and Jean-Jacques E. Slotine Robust trajectory control of underwater vehicles 462

LETTERS
David Middleton and Robert H. Mellen Wind-generated solitons: A potentially significant mechanism in ocean surface wave generation and surface scattering 471

BOOK REVIEWS
John B. Cheatham Jr. Blowout prevention--Theory and applications 477