학술논문
An empirical correction for the MWR brightness temperature smear effect
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Conference
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Source
2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International. :4680-4683 Jul, 2012
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ISSN
2153-6996
2153-7003
2153-7003
Abstract
The Microwave Radiometer (MWR), on board of the SAC-D/Aquarius satellite, is a Dicke radiometer, operating at 23.8 and 36.5 GHz that was developed by Argentine Space Agency, CoNAE. Since the first earth surface T B images, there has been an anomalous effect when observing strong contrast radiometric scenes, such as land/water crossings. This effect is present in all push-broom beams and results in a “smearing” of T B observations near high contrast areas. This paper presents the initial findings on this MWR brightness temperature anomaly that is best described as a coupling of sequential MWR feed horn measurements. In the present work, an empirical approach is used to mitigate this anomalous effect.