Faraday rotation correction in the polarimetric mode of MIRAS

Author

Ribó, Serni ; Martín-Neira, Manuel

Author_Institution

Inst. d´´Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

42

Issue

7

fYear

2004

fDate

7/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1405

Lastpage

1410

Abstract

This paper describes a new method to compensate the Faraday rotation in polarimetric radiometric measurements under the assumption that the polarimetric brightness temperature matrix of the target is diagonal. Simulations results of how this method can be used within the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission and the Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis imaging radiometer are presented.

Keywords

Faraday effect; hydrological techniques; hydrology; microwave imaging; oceanographic techniques; oceanography; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; Faraday rotation correction; L-band; MIRAS; Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis; SMOS; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission; aperture synthesis imaging radiometer; polarimetric brightness temperature matrix; polarimetric mode; radiometric measurements; synthetic aperture radiometry; Antenna measurements; Brightness temperature; L-band; Microwave imaging; Microwave radiometry; Polarization; Rotation measurement; SMOS mission; Sea measurements; Space technology; Faraday rotation; L-band; MIRAS; Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis; SMOS; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity; polarimetric radiometry; synthetic aperture radiometry;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TGRS.2004.828189

Filename

1315823