We study the possibility of determining characteristics of wind-induced waves by using the sea-surface image observed from under water. The statistical model of the solar path resulting from the light refraction by rough sea surface is developed. It is shown that the statistical processing of the solar-path image allows one to determine not only the variance of the surface slopes, but also the spatial-correlation coefficient of the slopes and, therefore, their spatial spectrum.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 36–45, January 2009.
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Mol’kov, A.A., S.Dolin, L. Informative properties of the underwater solar path. Radiophys Quantum El 52, 31–40 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-009-9106-2
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