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Not only are the modulation of ocean waves, speckle noise, and temporal decorrelation of the small-scale waves considered, but the velocity bunching (VB) effect caused by the motion of large-scale waves is also effectively added to the simulation of the SAR echo signal. To verify the reliability of the simulation method, the simulated SAR images using the parameters of the RADARSAT-2 SAR, the corresponding wind wave information measured by an in-situ buoy, and the reanalysis wave spectra have been compared with the actual RADARSAT-2 SAR images. The comparisons demonstrate that the characteristics of simulated SAR images, such as the intensity distribution and the image spectra, are consistent with those of actual RADARSAT-2 SAR images. Based on the numerical simulation method proposed by us, SAR images of ocean waves for different marine environments and radar platform parameters are simulated. The imaging results indicate that the texture feature of the wind waves would be severely damaged due to the VB effect, while the texture of swells in the simulated SAR images may not be damaged or even becomes clearer. From the simulated SAR image spectrum, it can be found that the azimuth wavenumber is cut off when the VB effect is considered in the simulation process, and the azimuth cut-off wavelength increases with the range-to-velocity ratio.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14030439","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,18]],"date-time":"2022-01-18T22:47:32Z","timestamp":1642546052000},"page":"439","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Numerical Simulation of SAR Image for Sea Surface"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Qian","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7337-9467","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yanmin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4770-3753","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yunhua","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China"},{"name":"Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yining","family":"Bai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China"},{"name":"Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yushi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment, The China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao 266107, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment, The China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao 266107, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"685","DOI":"10.1109\/TAP.1979.1142163","article-title":"The effect of orbital motions on synthetic aperture radar imagery of ocean waves","volume":"27","author":"Alpers","year":"1979","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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