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The self-interferometric phase is proposed to complement the imprecise analysis results due to the very meager signal strength measured at a high incident angle of more than 30\u00b0, which is a vulnerability of the existing analysis method using the Doppler frequency based on the backscattered signal strength. Moreover, compared to conventional interferometry, it is characterized by the phase-based analysis using consecutive signals from a single scatterometer system without any auxiliary system or channel. To apply the interferometric signal process on the moving sea surface observation, it is necessary to secure a reference target; however, this is hard to solve in practice. Hence, we adopted the back-projection algorithm to project the radar signals onto a fixed reference position above the sea surface, where the theoretical model for extracting the self-interferometric phase was derived from the radar-received signal model applying the back-projection algorithm. The observation performance of the proposed method was verified using the raw data collected at the Ieodo Ocean Research Station in Republic of Korea. In the observation result for wind velocity at the high incident angles of 40\u00b0 and 50\u00b0, the self-interferometric phase analysis technique shows a better performance of a correlation coefficient of more than about 0.779 and an RMSE (root-mean-square error) of about 1.69 m\/s compared to the existing method of a correlation coefficient of less than 0.62 and RMSE of more than 2.46 m\/s.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23063049","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,13]],"date-time":"2023-03-13T03:28:33Z","timestamp":1678678113000},"page":"3049","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Back-Projected Signal-Based Self-Interferometric Phase Analysis Technique for Sea Surface Observation Using a Single Scatterometer System"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2911-1583","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ji-hwan","family":"Hwang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute of Basic Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 88026, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8147-7641","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Duk-jin","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Earth and Environmental Science, Seoul National University, Seoul 88026, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1903","DOI":"10.1109\/36.851773","article-title":"Polarimetric scatterometry: A promising technique for improving ocean surface wind measurements from space","volume":"38","author":"Tsai","year":"2000","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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