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It is known that the impact of slick on sea surface is mainly caused by two factors: the Marangoni damping effect and the reduction of friction velocity. In this work, the influences induced by these two factors on the sea curvature spectrum, the root mean square (RMS) height, the RMS slope, and the autocorrelation function of sea surfaces are studied in detail. Then, the slick-free and slick-covered sea surface profiles are simulated using the Elfouhaily spectrum and the Monte-Carlo model. The SSA-2 with the tapered incident wave is employed to simulate the normalized radar cross-sections (NRCSs) of sea surfaces. Furthermore, for slick-free sea surfaces, the NRCSs simulated with the SSA-2 at various bands are compared with those obtained by the first-order small slope approximation (SSA-1), the classic two-scale model (TSM), and the geophysical model functions (GMFs) at various bands, respectively. For slick-covered sea surfaces, the SSA-2-simulated NRCSs are compared with those obtained from C-band Radarsat-2 images and L-band uninhabited aerial vehicle synthetic aperture radar (UAVSAR) images, respectively. The numerical simulations illustrate that the SSA-2 can be used to study the EM backscattering from slick-free and slick-covered sea surfaces, and it has more advantages than the SSA-1 and the TSM. The works presented in this paper are helpful for understanding the EM scattering from the sea surface covered with slick, in theory.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10121931","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,3]],"date-time":"2018-12-03T06:02:09Z","timestamp":1543816929000},"page":"1931","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Investigation of EM Backscattering from Slick-Free and Slick-Covered Sea Surfaces Using the SSA-2 and SAR Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Honglei","family":"Zheng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, 238 Songling Road, Qingdao 266100, China"}]},{"given":"Yanmin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, 238 Songling Road, Qingdao 266100, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8791-0768","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ali","family":"Khenchaf","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Lab-STICC, UMR CNRS 6285, ENSTA Bretagne, 2 rue Francois Verny 29806 Brest CEDEX 9, France"}]},{"given":"Yunhua","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, 238 Songling Road, Qingdao 266100, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6020-0723","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Helmi","family":"Ghanmi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Lab-STICC, UMR CNRS 6285, ENSTA Bretagne, 2 rue Francois Verny 29806 Brest CEDEX 9, France"}]},{"given":"Chaofang","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, 238 Songling Road, Qingdao 266100, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6521","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2013.2297193","article-title":"Oil spill detection in hybrid-polarimetric SAR images","volume":"52","author":"Salberg","year":"2014","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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