A constellation concept for microwave interferometric radiometry from geostationary orbit
A constellation concept for microwave interferometric radiometry from geostationary orbit
Microwave radiometry has been successfully providing a variety of environmental and climate information including surface temperature, soil moisture and ocean salinity, precipitation, tropospheric temperature and humidity from LEO. In LEO, the temporal resolution (frequency) of measurements are limited by the satellites’ revisit frequency, typically in days. Placing the instrument on a geostationary orbit would reduce this to minutes, and would also enable real‐time measurement. However, due to the distance to GEO, spatial resolution suffers. To improve the spatial resolution at a given wavelength, two interferometer concepts with formation‐flight are proposed.
Sugihara El Maghraby, Ahmed Kiyoshi
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Tatnall, Adrian
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Grubisic, Angelo
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8 September 2015
Sugihara El Maghraby, Ahmed Kiyoshi
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Tatnall, Adrian
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Grubisic, Angelo
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Sugihara El Maghraby, Ahmed Kiyoshi, Tatnall, Adrian and Grubisic, Angelo
(2015)
A constellation concept for microwave interferometric radiometry from geostationary orbit.
RSPSoc, NCEO and CEOI-ST Joint Annual Conference 2015, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
08 - 11 Sep 2015.
1 pp
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Abstract
Microwave radiometry has been successfully providing a variety of environmental and climate information including surface temperature, soil moisture and ocean salinity, precipitation, tropospheric temperature and humidity from LEO. In LEO, the temporal resolution (frequency) of measurements are limited by the satellites’ revisit frequency, typically in days. Placing the instrument on a geostationary orbit would reduce this to minutes, and would also enable real‐time measurement. However, due to the distance to GEO, spatial resolution suffers. To improve the spatial resolution at a given wavelength, two interferometer concepts with formation‐flight are proposed.
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Published date: 8 September 2015
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RSPSoc, NCEO and CEOI-ST Joint Annual Conference 2015, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, 2015-09-08 - 2015-09-11
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Aeronautics, Astronautics & Comp. Eng, Astronautics Group, Education Hub
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Local EPrints ID: 408039
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/408039
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Ahmed Kiyoshi Sugihara El Maghraby
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