Search Results - "2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment"

Preparing the ESA-SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission - Overview of the User Data Products and Data Distribution Strategy by Pinori, S., Crapolicchio, R., Mecklenburg, S.

“…The ESA Earth Explorer SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission will carry the first polar-orbiting 2-D interferometric radiometer (MIRAS- Microwave…”
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Rain Retrieval Using the 183 GHz Absorption Lines by Laviola, S., Levizzani, V.

“…High spatial resolution AMSU opaque channels are used to retrieve rain rates and classify precipitation types. The retrieval scheme (183-WSL) consists of two…”
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PAU in SeoSAT: A Proposed Hybrid L-band Microwave Radiometer/GPS Reflectometer to Improve Sea Surface Salinity Estimates from Space by Camps, A., Rodriguez-Alvarez, N., Bosch-Lluis, X., Marchan, J.F., Ramos-Perez, I., Segarra, M., Sagues, L., Tarrago, D., Cunado, O., Vilaseca, R., Tomas, A., Mas, J., Guillamon, J.

“…It is generally accepted that the best way to retrieve sea surface salinity (SSS) is by means of L-band radiometry (1400-1427 MHz). However, in addition to the…”
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Microwave emission from snowpacks: modeling the effects of volume scattering, surface scattering and layering by Leung Tsang, Ding Liang, Xiaolan Xu, Peng Xu

“…We used the dense media radiative transfer (DMRT) theory and the 3D numerical solutions of Maxwell equations to study the volume scattering in snow. We used…”
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The Aquarius/SAC-D mission and status of the Aquarius instrument by Le Vine, D.M., Lagerloef, G., Pellerano, F., Colomb, F.R.

“…The Aquarius/SAC-D mission is a partnership between the USA (NASA) and Argentina (CONAE). The observatory consists of Aquarius, an L-band radiometer/radar…”
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Development of a 22 GHz correlating radiometer for the observation of stratospheric water vapor by Straub, C., Murk, A., Kampfer, N., Zardet, D., Stuber, B.

“…We present the overall design, first ideas for the calibration concept and first measurements of a new campaign radiometer for the observation of stratospheric…”
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FLORAD: Micro-satellite flower constellation of millimeter-wave radiometers for atmospheric remote sensing by Marzano, F.S., Cimini, D., Montopoli, M., Memmo, A., Ferretti, R., Rossi, T., De Sanctis, M., Lucente, M., Mortari, D., Oricchio, D., Varchetta, S., Pavia, P., Nassisi, A., Balduccini, M., Scorzolini, A., Reboa, L., Tozzi, P., Bruno, A., Greco, F., Perrotta, G., Giuliani, G., Giusto, R., Di Michele, S.

“…Requirements and preliminary specifications to design a micro-satellite flower constellation, named FLORAD, of millimeter-wave (MMW) radiometers for…”
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Accurate L-band dielectric constant measurements of seawater by Lang, R.H., Tarkocin, Y., Utku, C., Le Vine, D.

“…A temperature controlled resonant cavity is used to measure the complex dielectric constant of seawater at 30 psu over the temperature range from 10degC to…”
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Estimation of canopy attenuation for active/passive microwave soil moisture retrieval algorithms by Kurum, M., Lang, R.H., ONeill, P.E., Joseph, A., Jackson, T., Cosh, M.

“…This paper discusses the importance of the proper characterization of scattering and attenuation in trees needed for accurate retrieval of soil moisture in the…”
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A compact airborne G-band (183 GHz) water Vapor Radiometer and retrievals of liquid cloud parameters from coincident radiometer and millimeter wave radar measurements by Pazmany, A.L., Wolde, M.

“…ProSensing Inc. has developed a G-band (183 GHz, 1.5 mm wavelength) water Vapor Radiometer (GVR) for measuring low concentrations of atmospheric water vapor…”
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High precision and high resolution global precipitation map from satellite data by Okamoto, K., Takahashi, N., Iwanami, K., Shige, S., Kubota, T.

“…The five year research project, ldquoThe Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP)rdquo sponsored by Japan Science and Technology Agency(JST) ended in…”
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Fire detection by low-cost microwave radiometric sensors by Alimenti, F., Kempka, T., Tasselli, G., Bonafoni, S., Basili, P., Roselli, L., Solbach, K., Willms, H.-I.

“…This paper discuss the possibility to detect a fire exploiting microwave radiometric sensors. In particular the experiences carried-out at the University of…”
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Air-sea interaction monitoring by remote and contact measurements: The results of the CAPMOS'05 and CAPMOS'07 experiments on an oceanographic platform in the Black Sea by Pospelov, M.N., Goryachkin, Y.N., Komarova, N.Y., Kuzmin, A.V., Kuznetsov, A.S., Pampaloni, P., Repina, I.A., Smirnov, M.T., Zecchetto, S.

“…The paper presents the results of the experiments CAPMOSpsila05 and CAPMOSpsila07 performed on an offshore oceanographic platform in the Black Sea. The…”
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Neural-Network based algorithm for ice concentration retrievals from satellite passive microwave data by Bobylev, L.P., Zabolotskikh, E.V., Mitnik, L.M., Johannessenn, O.M.

“…Present algorithms for observing the multiyear ice cover are not accurate in multiyear fraction calculations, which is a significant disadvantage of the…”
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Regional features of microwave radiation and snow cover interaction on the example of the North of the European part of Russia by Tikhonov, V.V., Bojarskiy, D.A., Kitaev, L.M., Raev, M.D., Cherenkova, E.A.

“…The present report discusses a structure dependent model of emissivity of snow cover. Microwave radiation of the snow cover laying on the surface of earth is…”
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L-band radiometry and reflection of the galaxy by a rough ocean surface by Dinnat, E.P., Le Vine, D.M., Abraham, S.

“…The celestial sky brightness temperature reflected by the ocean surface toward an L-band radiometer induces a signal that needs to be known in order to…”
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Use of Pseudo-Random Noise sequences in microwave radiometer calibration by Ramos-Perez, I., Bosch-Lluis, X., Camps, A., Marchan-Hernandez, J.F., Rodriguez-Alvarez, N., Valencia, E.

“…The calibration of large aperture synthesis interferometric radiometers such as the Microwave Imaging Radiometer by Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) aboard ESApsilas…”
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Temperature and humidity profiling in the Arctic using millimeter-wave radiometry by Cimini, D., Westwater, E.R., Gasiewski, A.J., Klein, M., Leuski, V.

“…A One Dimentional Variational (1DVAR) retrieval technique has been developed for obtaining temperature and humidity profiles from observations of the…”
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The impact of the number of bits in digital beamforming real aperture and synthetic aperture radiometers by Lluis, X.B., Perez, I.R., Camps, A., Hernandez, J.F.M., Alvarez, N.R., Valencia, E., Vericat, M., Guerrero, M.A.

“…This work analyzes the number of bits required in a digital radiometer with beamforming focusing on the integration time and on the relationship between the…”
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Comparison of ground-based millimeter-wave observations in the arctic winter by Cimini, D., Nasir, F., Westwater, E.R., Payne, V.H., Turner, D.D., Mlawer, E.J., Exner, M.L.

“…During the Radiative Heating in Underexplored Bands Campaign (RHUBC), held in February-March 2007, three millimeter-wave radiometers were operated at the…”
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