A tentative unified sea model for scattering and emission

This work is an attempt to relate active and passive observations of the sea surface to each other, considering that more information can be obtained from a set of instruments when they are not just considered as a juxtaposition of separate and independent boxes, but as a single complex instrument. A careful review of several approaches to the solution of the scattering problem for a random rough surface has been performed. Inherent simplifications, and inconsistencies, are pointed out. To reduce the computation time to reasonable values, an approximate model is selected and some numerical results will be presented in order to illustrate the benefit that can be gained by a unified approach.