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In this study, we derive an improved version of these formulas through three steps. First, by considering the ocean wavenumber spectrum information, a new strategy for determining the number of independent samples of the sea wave velocity field is adopted in the new formula. This is contrary to the method used in the existing formulas, where the number of SAR geometric resolution cells is taken as the number of samples assuming that adjacent SAR resolution cells are statistically uncorrelated. Second, the pulse repetition frequency and Doppler bandwidth are decoupled in the new formula, unlike in the existing formulas where they are unchangeably related to each other. Third, the effects of thermal noise and Doppler aliasing are jointly quantified in a mathematically exact manner instead of being treated separately, as in the existing formulas. 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