The unified full wave approach is used to generate polarimctric images of composite rough surfaces illuminated by high resolution radar (i.e., real or synthetic aperture radars with small effective footprints). The unified full wave solutions account for Bragg scattering and specular point scattering in a self-consistent manner, therefore it is not necessary to decompose the surface into two surfaces with large and small roughness scales. The like and cross-potarized scattering cross-sections for the rough sea surface are tilt modulated due to the presence of swell or ship wakes. Hydrodynamic effects such as velocity bunching arc not considered here. The normal to an arbitrarily oriented mean plane associated with the illuminated resolution cell (pixel) is characterized by the tilt angles Q and t, in and perpendicular to, a fixed reference plane of incidence associated with the radar. The like and cross polarized backscatter cross sections of a tilted resolution cell are expressed in terms of the angle of incidence θ”in the fixed reference coordinate system, the tilt angles of the resolution cell O and r, and elements of the Phase (Mueller) matrix that completely characterizes electromagnetic scattering from an untitled resolution cell.