RFI detected by kurtosis and polarimetry: performance comparison based on airborne campaign data

Jan E. Balling; Sten Schmidl Søbjærg; Steen Savstrup Kristensen; Niels Skou

doi:10.1109/MicroRad.2012.6185255

RFI detected by kurtosis and polarimetry: performance comparison based on airborne campaign data

Jan E. Balling, Sten Schmidl Søbjærg, Steen Savstrup Kristensen, Niels Skou

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Leading up to the ESA Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, a series of campaigns have taken place, including airborne L-band radiometer measurements using the EMIRAD-2 radiometer - a fully polarimetric radiometer with Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) detection capabilities by means of the kurtosis method. An RFI detection scheme combining kurtosis and polarimetry has been evaluated, and it has been established that the two methods complement each other well. Following the addition of a digital filter bank to the radiometer system, a new RFI detection scheme has been developed and tested. The RFI removal capabilities of the two detection schemes are similar, however, the new detection scheme results in fewer data samples being discarded due to RFI.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	12th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad)
Number of pages	4
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2012
ISBN (Print)	9781467314688
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MicroRad.2012.6185255
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	12th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment - Tor Vergata University of Rome Villa Mondragone, Rome, Italy Duration: 5 Mar 2012 → 9 Mar 2012 Conference number: 12 http://www.geok.it/microrad2012/index.html

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Number	12
Location	Tor Vergata University of Rome Villa Mondragone
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Rome
Period	05/03/2012 → 09/03/2012
Internet address	http://www.geok.it/microrad2012/index.html

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Balling, JE , Søbjærg, SS , Kristensen, SS & Skou, N 2012, RFI detected by kurtosis and polarimetry: performance comparison based on airborne campaign data. in 12th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad). IEEE, 12th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, Rome, Italy, 05/03/2012. https://doi.org/10.1109/MicroRad.2012.6185255

RFI detected by kurtosis and polarimetry: performance comparison based on airborne campaign data. / Balling, Jan E.; Søbjærg, Sten Schmidl ; Kristensen, Steen Savstrup et al.
12th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad). IEEE, 2012.

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