Beam spoiling correction for spaceborne microwave radiometers using the two-point vicarious calibration method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 21-27

  McKague, Darren S ^a   Ruf, Christopher S ^a   Puckett, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CALIBRATION ERROR; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; EXTERNAL CALIBRATION; GAIN AND OFFSET; MEASUREMENT RANGE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; ON-BOARD SPACECRAFTS; RADIOMETER CALIBRATION; REFERENCE POINTS; ROOT CAUSE; SIDE LOBES; SPACE-BORNE; TWO-POINT; TWO-POINT CALIBRATION METHOD; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION; WINDSAT;

ANTENNAS; ERRORS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY;

CALIBRATION;

ANTENNA; AZIMUTH; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CORRECTION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; SATELLITE DATA; SIR; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 78650883020     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2068052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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