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Sensors 2006, 6, 620-642 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 © 2006 by MDPI /sensors Special Issue on “Satellite Altimetry: New Sensors and New Application” Edited by Ge Chen and Graham D. Quartly Full Research Paper A Rotating Knife-beam Altimeter for Wide-swath Remote Sensing of Ocean: Wind and Waves V. Yu. Karaev 1,*, M. B. Kanevsky 1, G. N. Balandina 1, E. M. Meshkov 1, P. Challenor 2, Meric Srokosz 2,* and C. Gommenginger 2 1 Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Scinces 46, Uljanov str., 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Tel. +7 8312 164928, E-mil: volody@hydro.appl.sci-nnov.ru 2 National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK E-mail: mas@noc.soton.ac.uk * Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed. Received: 22 August 2005 / Accepted: 22 June 2006 / Published: 22 June 2006 Abstract: The use of a nadir altimeter radar with a rotating knife-beam antenna pattern is considered for improved measurements of the sea surface wind and wave parameters over a wide swath. Theoretical calculations suggest the antenna beam rotating about the vertical axis is able to provide wide swath of order 250-350 km. Processing of the signals using time or Doppler sampling techniques results in the division of the antenna footprint into elementary scattering cells of the order of 14x14 km. The theoretical algorithms developed here indicate that the system may be used to retrieve the variance of large-scale slopes, the direction of wave propagation and the wind speed in each cell. The possibility of measuring significa