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Provedor de dados: | 5
País: | France
Título: | Comparison of the Sentinel-1B Synthetic Aperture Radar With Airborne Microwave Sensors in an Extra-Tropical Cyclone
Autores: | Sapp, Joseph W.; Mouche, Alexis; Jelenak, Zorana; Chang, Paul S.; Frasier, Stephen J.
Data: | 2020-07
Ano: | 2020
Palavras-chave: | Satellites; Aircraft; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; Sea measurements; Wind speed; C-band; Cross polarization; Normalized radar cross section (NRCS); Ocean winds; Scatterometry.
Resumo: | In Winter 2017, the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (IWRAP) was flown on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) WP-3D Hurricane Hunter aircraft under the direction of scientists from Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) at NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) over the North Atlantic ocean out of Shannon, Ireland. IWRAP is a dual-frequency, conically scanning, profiling Doppler radar initially developed by Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst that is routinely installed on the NOAA WP-3D research aircraft. The flight on February 6, 2017, targeted a region of high winds (greater than 30 m/s) that was also observed by the Sentinel-1B satellite's synthetic aperture radar. Sentinel-1B was configured to observe in extended wide swath mode in both VV- and VH-polarizations, whereas the IWRAP C-band radar was configured to measure all of VV-, VH-, and HH-polarizations. IWRAP and Sentinel-1B VV and VH normalized radar cross section (NRCS) at the same Earthincidence angle along the flight path match reasonably well during the entire flight, but some additional trends between aircraft and satellite can be observed. IWRAP VV-polarized NRCS generally match the CMOD5.h geophysical model function (GMF), suggesting errors in the Sentinel-1B processing chain.
Tipo: | Text
Idioma: | Inglês

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https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00640/75251/75648.pdf

DOI:10.1109/TGRS.2020.2966332

https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00640/75251/

Editor: | Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc
Formato: | application/pdf
Fonte: | Ieee Transactions On Geoscience And Remote Sensing (0196-2892) (Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc), 2020-07 , Vol. 58 , N. 7 , P. 4721-4729

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