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Generally, for Electromagnetic (EM) scattering of the foam-covered sea surface, medium-scale waves are used to replace the breaking waves of the real sea surface. Another treatment in computation is to adopt one of the whitecap coverages and fixed foam layer thickness. In fact, the evolution process of a breaking wave goes through two stages: stage A (crest foam) and stage B (static foam). In this paper, a geometric model of the sea surface covered with crest foam and static foam is established. The coverage ratio of stage A and stage B is proposed for the first time for a given sea state. In addition, different foam layer thickness distributions in each foam for various wind speeds are also considered. Based on the facet scattering theory of sea surface, this paper adopts the modified facet-based scattering model to deal with the scattering contribution of the sea surface and the effect of foam. Finally, in order to verify the accuracy of the geometric modeling and the scattering model of the sea surface, the EM backscattering of sea surface under different sea states are calculated. Simulation results show that the results of the proposed model are more consistent with the measured data than the results of the sea surface covered with individual crest foam or the sea surface covered with individual static foam.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12050788","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,3]],"date-time":"2020-03-03T03:13:28Z","timestamp":1583205208000},"page":"788","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["A Modified Model for Electromagnetic Scattering of Sea Surface Covered with Crest Foam and Static Foam"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Dongfang","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhiqin","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yanwen","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuan","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zaiping","family":"Nie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"429","DOI":"10.1175\/1520-0469(1971)028<0429:MOMEFA>2.0.CO;2","article-title":"Measurements of Microwave Emission from a Foam-Covered Wind-Driven Sea","volume":"28","author":"Nordberg","year":"1971","journal-title":"J. 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