Bispectrum and analysis of the statistics of electromagnetic waves backscattered by sea surface

Numerical characteristics of peculiarities of the sea surface shape were introduced by means of the bispectrum, a statistical third-order characteristic. The influence of the bispectral characteristics in the long-wavelength and resonant pari of the sea-way spectrum on the average amplitude of the reflected radar signal were studied. The obtained results can be applied to the simulation of the processing and identification of the sea surface radar images, in particular, to the development of effective algorithms to look for sea-way anomalies in radar images of the sea surface.