The high-altitude MMIC sounding radiometer for the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle: Instrument description and performance

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3291-3301

  Brown, Shannon T ^a   Lambrigtsen, Bjorn ^a   Denning, Richard F ^a   Gaier, Todd ^a   Kangaslahti, Pekka ^a   Lim, Boon H ^a   Tanabe, Jordan M ^a   Tanner, Alan B ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne remote sensing; microwave sounder; tropical cyclone; unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION; AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING; CONVECTIVE INTENSITY; CROSS-TRACK SCANNING; DATA SYSTEMS; FIELD CAMPAIGN; GLOBAL HAWKS; HIGH ALTITUDE; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; MICROWAVE SOUNDER; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; OXYGEN LINE; PASS BANDS; PROCESSING CAPABILITY; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; REAL-TIME DATA; SENSOR RESOLUTION; STORM STRUCTURE; TROPICAL CLOUDS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CHARACTERIZATION; HURRICANES; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NASA; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SOUNDING APPARATUS; STORMS; TROPICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WATER VAPOR;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

ALTITUDE; AMPLIFICATION; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD SURVEY; HURRICANE; INSTRUMENTATION; OXYGEN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADIOMETER; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; UNMANNED VEHICLE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 80052306645     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2125973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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