Global precipitation measurement microwave imager prelaunch hot load calibration

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4731-4742

  Draper, David W ^a   Newell, David A ^a   Teusch, Dennis A ^a   Yoho, Peter K ^a  

^a BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Calibration target; Microwave radiometry; Thermal gradients

Indexed keywords

FACINGS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; ORBITS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THERMAL GRADIENTS;

CALIBRATION ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION TARGETS; CALIBRATION TESTING; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SOLAR ILLUMINATION; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENTIAL;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84874629681     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2239300     Document Type: Article

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