학술논문
A generalized logical format for inter-calibrated brightness temperatures for the global precipitation measurement mission
Document Type
Conference
Source
2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International. :844-846 Jul, 2010
Subject
Language
ISSN
2153-6996
2153-7003
2153-7003
Abstract
An important aspect of the GPM mission is the merging of precipitation data from multiple radiometers on different satellites. This requires that each radiometer be consistently calibrated and that each be intercalibrated with a mission reference standard. For GPM the reference standard is to be the core satellite carrying a dual frequency precipitation radar and a well calibrated conically scanning radiometer. This paper describes a common format for representing these intercalibrated brightness temperatures which will be used for all radiometer products from GPM partner satellites. The use of common formats ensures that users obtain all the required information and also facilitates the rain retrieval algorithm code preparation as it can always except to have the data that it needs for the retrieval.