The FengYun-3 microwave radiation imager on-orbit verification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 11 PART 2, 2011, Pages 4552-4560

  Yang, Hu ^a   Weng, Fuzhong ^b   Lv, Liqing ^c   Lu, Naimeng ^a   Liu, Gaofeng ^c   Bai, Ming ^d   Qian, Qiaoyuan ^c   He, Jiakai ^c   Xu, Hongxin ^c  

^a NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^b Center for Satellite Application and Research   (United States)

^c Shanghai Institute of Space Communication Technology   (China)

^d Beijing Aviational Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Calibration; FengYun (FY) 3; microwave radiometer; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AMAZON FORESTS; ANTENNA PATTERN; ATMOSPHERIC PRODUCTS; BEAM TRANSMISSION; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CALIBRATION PROCESS; CALIBRATION SYSTEM; CALIBRATION TARGETS; CROSS CALIBRATION; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; FENGYUN (FY)-3; LEGACY SENSORS; LOAD TRANSMISSION; LOSS FACTOR; MAIN REFLECTORS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; NONLINEARITY FACTOR; ON-ORBIT; QUASI-OPTICAL; RADIATION LOSS; SATELLITE DATA; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER; WINDSAT;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; CALIBRATION; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ANTENNAS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ANTENNA; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; POLARIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 80455164712     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2148200     Document Type: Article

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