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The height estimation of the flying vehicle from the received echo signals at the output of its tracking system is the sum of three factors: the first factor is the height to the average sea level the second is the bias of the estimation of the height, which is time-varying and depends on the slope of large-scale roughness; the third is the terms related to the surface topography. For the calculation of the estimation errors of the height measurement of a low altitude precision radar altimeter, a reasonable approximation of the large roughness of the sea surface by a deterministic function is necessary. In this study, we performed the derivation of the estimation function and the analysis of the limiting accuracy of the height measurement using the calculation of the estimation errors in spectral domain method describing the large-scale sea surface roughness. 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