The HYDROS radiometer/radar instrument

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 691-694

  Spencer, Michael W ^a   Njoku, Eni ^a   Entekhabi, Dara ^b   Doiron, Terence ^c   Piepmeier, Jeffrey ^c   Girard, Ralph ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Freeze thaw; Radar; Radiometer; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

DUAL-POLARIZATION; HYDROSPHERE STATE MISSION (HYDROS); SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE FREEZE;

BAND STRUCTURE; FREEZING; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MOISTURE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; ORBITS; POLARIZATION; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR EQUIPMENT; SOILS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 15944396494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. D. Entekhabi, E. Njoku, P. Houser, M. Spencer, T. Doiron, J. Smith, R. Girard, S. Belair, W. Crow, T. Jackson, Y. Kerr, J. Kimball, R. Koster, K. McDonald, P. O'Neill, T. Pultz, S. Running, J.C. Shi, E. Wood, J. vanZyl, "The Hydrosphere State (HYDROS) Mission: An Earth System Pathfinder for Global Mapping of Soil Moisture and Land Freeze/Thaw," IEEE Transactions on GeoScience and Remote Sensing, (accepted for publication).
2. E. Njoku, W. Wilson, S. Yueh, R. Freeland, R. Helms, W. Edelstein, G. Sadowy, D. Farra, R. West, K. Oxnevad, T. Campbell, W. Lawrence, Y. Rahmat-Samii, H. Feingold, G. Didinsky, J. Rauwolf, M. Thompson, G. Konicke, "Spacebome Microwave Instrument for High Resolution Remote Sensing of the Earth Surface Using a Large-Aperture Mesh Antenna," NASA/JPL Publication 01-09, September, 2001.
3. J. Piepmeier, "Calibration of Passive Microwave Polarimeters That Use Hybrid Coupler-Based Correlators," IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 42, No. 2, February, 2004, pp. 391-400.
4. M. Spencer, W. Tsai, D. Long, "High-Resolution Measurements With a Spacebome Pencil-Beam Scatterometer Using Combined Range/Doppler Discrimination Techniques," IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 41, No. 3, March 2003, pp. 567-581.