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This paper provides a discussion of the possibility of using the Doppler spectrum of the reflected microwave signal to solve this problem. For the first time, a semi-empirical model of the Doppler spectrum of a radar microwave signal reflected by an ice cover was developed for a radar with a wide antenna beam mounted on a moving carrier at small incidence angles of electromagnetic waves (0\u00b0\u201319\u00b0). To describe the Doppler spectrum of the reflected microwave signal, the following parameters were used: shift and width of the Doppler spectrum, as well as skewness and kurtosis coefficients. Research was conducted on the influence of the main parameters of the measurement scheme (movement velocity, width of antenna beam, sounding direction, incidence angle) and the sea ice concentration (SIC) on the parameters of the Doppler spectrum. It was shown that, in order to determine the kind of scattering surface, it is necessary to use a wide or knife-like (by the incidence angle) antenna. Calculations confirmed the assumption that, when measured from a moving carrier, the Doppler spectrum is a reliable indicator of the transition from one kind of scattering surface to another. 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