The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) microwave imager (GMI): Instrument overview and early on-orbit performance

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3452-3462

  Draper, David W ^a   Newell, David A ^a   Wentz, Frank J ^b   Krimchansky, Sergey ^c   Skofronick Jackson, Gail M ^c  

^a BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^b REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration accuracy; passive microwave remote sensing; radiometric sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; CALIBRATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; OBSERVATORIES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

CALIBRATION ACCURACY; CALIBRATION/VALIDATION; CONSTELLATION OF SATELLITES; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT MISSIONS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; RADIOMETRIC SENSITIVITY; SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS;

ORBITS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; ORBIT DETERMINATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE MISSION; SATELLITE SENSOR;

EID: 85027956804     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2403303     Document Type: Article

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