The airborne EMIRAD L-band radiometer system

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

doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723175

The airborne EMIRAD L-band radiometer system

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

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Abstract

This paper describes the EMIRAD L-band radiometer, developed in support of the ESA/SMOS mission. The instrument is a fully polarimetric, dual antenna system, built with special focus on antenna accuracy, receiver stability, and detection and mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI). The EMIRAD system has been installed on three different airborne platforms for measurements of sea surface signatures and salinity, soil moisture, and the homogeneity of the Antarctic SMOS calibration site. The installations are shown in the paper, and some major results for ocean and ice observations are given.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of IGARSS 2013
Number of pages	4
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2013
Pages	1900-1903
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4799-1114-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723175
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 21 Jul 2013 → 26 Jul 2013 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6704876/proceeding

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Conference	2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	21/07/2013 → 26/07/2013
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6704876/proceeding

Series	IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings
ISSN	2153-6996

Keywords

calibration
moisture measurement
oceanographic equipment
oceanographic techniques
radio receivers
radiofrequency interference
radiometers
receiving antennas
salinity (geophysical)
surface topography measurement
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
airborne EMIRAD L-band radiometer system
Antarctic SMOS calibration site
Antennas
Calibration
ESA-SMOS mission
Field programmable gate arrays
L-band
Microwave radiometry
Noise
polarimetric dual antenna system
Radio Frequency Interference
Radiometer
receiver stability
RFI
Salinity
sea surface measurement
SMOS
soil moisture

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Søbjærg, SS , Kristensen, SS , Balling, JE & Skou, N 2013, The airborne EMIRAD L-band radiometer system. in Proceedings of IGARSS 2013. IEEE, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, pp. 1900-1903, 2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21/07/2013. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723175

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