DocumentCode
1405590
Title
Approach for satellite slant path remote sensing
Author
Catalan, C. ; Vilar, E.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Portsmouth Univ., UK
Volume
34
Issue
12
fYear
1998
fDate
6/11/1998 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1238
Lastpage
1240
Abstract
It is theoretically and experimentally shown how angular smoothing of the sky brightness temperature caused by the radiometer antenna pattern can be used in conjunction with the spectral characteristics of the amplitude scintillations of a beacon receiver to allow unambiguous determination of the wind speed of a turbulent layer and its height, helping in the estimation of the refractive index structure constant (C n2)
Keywords
atmospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; atmospheric techniques; microwave links; microwave propagation; radiometry; refractive index; remote sensing; satellite links; sky brightness; wind; amplitude scintillations; angular smoothing; atmosphere; beacon receiver; height; measurement technique; radiometer antenna pattern; refractive index structure constant; remote sensing; satellite slant path; sky brightness temperature; spectral characteristics; turbulent layer; wind speed;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19980812
Filename
702397
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