M. Zribi, D. Hauser, M. Pardé, P. Fanise, P. Leroy, M. Dechambre, A. Weill, J. Boutin, G. Reverdin, J. Calvet, J. Wigneron, N. Skou, S. Søbjærg, N. Reul, A. Rius, E. Cardellach
{"title":"Combined airborne radio-instruments for ocean and land studies (CAROLS)","authors":"M. Zribi, D. Hauser, M. Pardé, P. Fanise, P. Leroy, M. Dechambre, A. Weill, J. Boutin, G. Reverdin, J. Calvet, J. Wigneron, N. Skou, S. Søbjærg, N. Reul, A. Rius, E. Cardellach","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779216","url":null,"abstract":"The CAROLS, L band radiometer, is built and designed as a copy of EMIRAD II radiometer of DTU team. It is a Correlation radiometer with direct sampling and fully polarimetric (i.e 4 Stockes). It will be used in conjunction with other airborne instruments (in particular the C-Band scatterometer (STORM) and IEEC GPS system, Infrared CIMEL radiometer, one visible camera), in coordination with in situ field campaigns for SMOS CAL/VAL. The instruments are implemented on board the French research airplane ATR42. A validation campaign with four flights was made over south west of France, Hourtin Lake and Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) in September 2007. In order to qualify the radiometer data, different types of aircraft movements were realized: circle flights, wing and nose wags. Simultaneously to flights, different ground measurements were made over continental surfaces and ocean. First results show a good quality of data over ocean surfaces. For continental surfaces, important Radio-Frequency Interferences (RFI) were observed over a large part of the studied region.","PeriodicalId":193521,"journal":{"name":"2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125418759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Alimenti, T. Kempka, G. Tasselli, S. Bonafoni, P. Basili, L. Roselli, K. Solbach, H.-I. Willms
{"title":"Fire detection by low-cost microwave radiometric sensors","authors":"F. Alimenti, T. Kempka, G. Tasselli, S. Bonafoni, P. Basili, L. Roselli, K. Solbach, H.-I. Willms","doi":"10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579469","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discuss the possibility to detect a fire exploiting microwave radiometric sensors. In particular the experiences carried-out at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and at the University of Perugia, Italy, are described. At the University of Duisburg-Essen a multi-frequency radiometer, capable of full 2-40 GHz coverage, has been developed. This sensor has been used to characterize the microwave emission of fire as a function of shape and of burning materials. In addition, the response of this microwave radiometer has been compared with those of standard (i.e. CO and CO2) fire sensors. At the University of Perugia, instead, a portable 12.65 GHz radiometric sensor has been developed. This frequency has been chosen in such a way as to balance a good obstacle penetration capability with a reasonable antenna size. To keep low the radiometer cost, commercial TV-SAT components have been adopted along with a noise-adding (switch-less) calibration architecture. Such a sensor is able to detect small fires (filling factor below 1%) while being characterized by a component cost less than $1800.","PeriodicalId":193521,"journal":{"name":"2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114682423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microwave emission from snowpacks: modeling the effects of volume scattering, surface scattering and layering","authors":"L. Tsang, D. Liang, Xiaolan Xu, P. Xu","doi":"10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579495","url":null,"abstract":"We used the dense media radiative transfer (DMRT) theory and the 3D numerical solutions of Maxwell equations to study the volume scattering in snow. We used the full wave solutions of Maxwell equations to study the scattering and emission from rough surface over layered media. . We compared quasicrystalline approximation-DMRT (QCA/DMRT) and numerical solutions of Maxwell equations-DMRT (NMM3D/DMRT) in simulating the scattering by densely packed particles and snow brightness temperature (TB). . For the problem of multilayer media with azimuthal asymmetric rough surface, we consider the four Stokes parameters The numerical results show that the presence of the layered media below the rough surface reduce the vertical and horizontal brightness temperatures. The interaction between the rough surface and the layered media also enhance the third and fourth Stokes parameters. In particular, the fourth Stokes parameter can be large for such geometrical configurations.","PeriodicalId":193521,"journal":{"name":"2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114266058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Kurum, R. Lang, P. Oneill, A. Joseph, T. Jackson, M. Cosh
{"title":"Estimation of canopy attenuation for active/passive microwave soil moisture retrieval algorithms","authors":"M. Kurum, R. Lang, P. Oneill, A. Joseph, T. Jackson, M. Cosh","doi":"10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579490","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the importance of the proper characterization of scattering and attenuation in trees needed for accurate retrieval of soil moisture in the presence of trees. Emphasis is placed on determining an accurate estimation of the propagation properties of a vegetation canopy using the complex frequency correlation function (FCF). A new technique for determining the canopy attenuation that uses the measured stepped frequency radar backscatter response is proposed. It makes use of the details found in a transient solution where the canopy (volume scattering) and the tree-ground (double interaction) effects appear at different times. The proposed technique is based on separating the backscattering sources within a forest canopy in the time response. The technique has been used with L band data collected over deciduous trees to verify that the algorithm results match the simulated data.","PeriodicalId":193521,"journal":{"name":"2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment","volume":"62 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114100638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Zabolotskikh, L. Mitnik, L. Bobylev, O. Johannessenn
{"title":"Arctic polar algorithms for atmospheric water parameter retrievals from satellite passive microwave data","authors":"E. Zabolotskikh, L. Mitnik, L. Bobylev, O. Johannessenn","doi":"10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579501","url":null,"abstract":"The new algorithms for retrieval of total atmospheric water vapor content (Q) and total cloud liquid water content (W) from satellite microwave radiometer data, applicable for the Arctic Basin. These algorithms are based on the neural networks (NNs) regression technique employed for the inversion of a radiative transfer equation (RTE). For the algorithm development the numerical integration of RTE was carried out for the channel characteristics of a Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E), and brightness temperatures (TB) were simulated for non-precipitating conditions over the open ocean. Sets of sea surface temperatures (Ts), surface winds and radiosonde reports collected by Russian research vessels served as input data for the integration. Only data with Ts less than 15degC were selected for algorithm development. Simulated radiometer noise was added to the calculated values of TB. Once developed, using theoretically simulated values of TB, the Q algorithms were then validated both for SSM/I and AMSR-E retrievals using satellite radiometric measurements collocated in space and time with polar station radiosonde data. The resulting SSM retrieval error proved to be 1.1 kg/m2, AMSR-E retrieval error -0.9 kg/m2. Considered case study was the polar low in the Norwegian Sea occurred 30-31 January 2008. NOAA AVHRR, Terra and Aqua MODIS images, QuikSCAT-retrieved wind fields, Envisat ASAR images as well as weather maps were used as ancillary data to passive microwave retrievals to study this phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":193521,"journal":{"name":"2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114682997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Ramos-Pérez, X. Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, J. Marchan-Hernandez, N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, E. Valencia
{"title":"Use of Pseudo-Random Noise sequences in microwave radiometer calibration","authors":"I. Ramos-Pérez, X. Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, J. Marchan-Hernandez, N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, E. Valencia","doi":"10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579475","url":null,"abstract":"The calibration of large aperture synthesis interferometric radiometers such as the Microwave Imaging Radiometer by Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) aboard ESApsilas SMOS mission is a crucial issue. Due to the large number of receiving channels, calibration techniques based on the centralized noise injection from a single noise source would require a large and stable distribution network, which is unfeasible from the point of view of mass, volume and phase equalization. Distributed noise injection techniques have been proposed, but are unable to correct for all types of errors. This work analyzes the possibility of using pseudo-random noise (PRN) instead of a centralized noise source. PRN sequences are signals with very long repetition period and relatively flat spectrum over a bandwidth determined by the length of the sequence and the symbol rate. Since their spectrum looks like that of the noise, calibration of a microwave correlation radiometers can benefit from their use.","PeriodicalId":193521,"journal":{"name":"2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115703229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Basili, S. Bonafoni, V. Mattioli, F. Pelliccia, A. Serpolla, E. Bocci, P. Ciotti
{"title":"Development of a neural network for precipitable water vapor retrieval over ocean and land","authors":"P. Basili, S. Bonafoni, V. Mattioli, F. Pelliccia, A. Serpolla, E. Bocci, P. Ciotti","doi":"10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579503","url":null,"abstract":"In this work a method based on neural networks is proposed to retrieve precipitable water vapour over land and over ocean from brightness temperatures measured by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System. In order to train the neural network, water vapour values provided by European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, sampled on a regular grid with a spacing of 0.25deg in latitude and longitude, were exploited. The analysis was performed over Italy and the Mediterranean area and, as expected, the water vapour retrieval over a sea background exhibits good accuracy. Over a land background the proposed approach seems to be promising, where a RMS error of about 0.3 cm was achieved.","PeriodicalId":193521,"journal":{"name":"2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment","volume":"19 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130945897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microwave radiometry of land, vegetation and water bodies: More than 30 years of modeling, conducting experiments and practical applications","authors":"A. Shutko","doi":"10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579459","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper an overview of the activities concerning microwave radiometry of land, vegetation and water bodies carried out for more than 30 years by Anatolij Shutko and his research group is given. In particular, the experiments carried out for validating the electromagnetic models, the results achieved during these years and the practical applications derived from this research are here described.","PeriodicalId":193521,"journal":{"name":"2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122509545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A theoretical analysis on the sensitivity of microwave emission to snow parameters","authors":"M. Brogioni, P. Pampaloni","doi":"10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579500","url":null,"abstract":"Snow cover represents the major part of the cryosphere and is an important component of the hydrological cycle. Moreover, it is a key indicator of global warming. In the last decades, microwave radiometry has proved to be very powerful for monitoring the snow cover parameters (e.g. the extent area and the water equivalent). By using electromagnetic models, which simulate emission and scattering from natural surfaces it is possible to interpret the electromagnetic measurements and to perform the retrieval of the parameters that characterize the soil and its covers. This work aims at investigating the sensitivity of microwave emission to snow parameters by means of an advanced model called IRIDE (Ifac RadiatIve Dry snow Emission model). The model is obtained by properly coupling the advanced integral equation method and the dense media radiative transfer theory under the quasi-crystalline approximation. The simulations performed by means of IRIDE allowed us to determine the sensitivity of the brightness temperature to the most interesting snow parameters (thickness, water equivalent and wetness of snow) as a function of different observation configurations (frequency, polarization and incidence angle).","PeriodicalId":193521,"journal":{"name":"2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124753250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adriano Camps, N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, X. Bosch-Lluis, J. F. Marchan, I. Ramos-Pérez, M. Segarra, L. Sagués, D. Tarragó, O. Cunado, R. Vilaseca, A. Tomas, J. Mas, J. Guillamon
{"title":"PAU in SeoSAT: A proposed hybrid L-band microwave radiometer/GPS reflectometer to improve Sea Surface Salinity estimates from space","authors":"Adriano Camps, N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, X. Bosch-Lluis, J. F. Marchan, I. Ramos-Pérez, M. Segarra, L. Sagués, D. Tarragó, O. Cunado, R. Vilaseca, A. Tomas, J. Mas, J. Guillamon","doi":"10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579467","url":null,"abstract":"It is generally accepted that the best way to retrieve sea surface salinity (SSS) is by means of L-band radiometry (1400-1427 MHz). However, in addition to the polarization and the incidence angle, the SSS and the sea surface temperature (SST), the sea surface brightness temperature depends on the sea state. This work describes a hybrid L-band radiometer & GPS L1 reflectometer proposed to infer sea state information at similar surface roughness scales and therefore improve the sea state correction in surface salinity estimates.","PeriodicalId":193521,"journal":{"name":"2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125408891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}