SMAP L-Band Microwave Radiometer: Instrument Design and First Year on Orbit

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1954-1966

  Piepmeier, Jeffrey R ^a   Focardi, Paolo ^b   Horgan, Kevin A ^a   Knuble, Joseph ^a   Ehsan, Negar ^a   Lucey, Jared ^a   Brambora, Clifford ^a   Brown, Paula R ^b   Hoffman, Pamela J ^b   French, Richard T ^b   Mikhaylov, Rebecca L ^b   Kwack, Eug Yun ^b   Slimko, Eric M ^b   Dawson, Douglas E ^b   Hudson, Derek ^a   Peng, Jinzheng ^a   Mohammed, Priscilla N ^a   De Amici, Giovanni ^a   Freedman, Adam P ^b   Medeiros, James ^a   Sacks, Fred ^a   Estep, Robert ^a   Spencer, Michael W ^b   Chen, Curtis W ^b   Wheeler, Kevin B ^b   Edelstein, Wendy N ^b   O'Neill, Peggy E ^a   Njoku, Eni G ^b   more..

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; microwave radiometry; polarimetry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MOISTURE; NASA; RADIOMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ANTENNA TEMPERATURE; INSTRUMENT DESIGNS; INTERNAL CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; POLARIMETRIC RADIOMETER; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP); THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ORBITS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANTENNA; CALIBRATION; DESIGN METHOD; EARTH SCIENCE; HARDWARE; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; POLARIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 85009932284     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2631978     Document Type: Article

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