Title :
Airborne experiments validating the spaceborne RFSCAT on CFOSAT
Author :
Di Zhu ; Lei Zhang ; Xiaolong Dong ; Xing-ou Xu ; Zhongguo Song ; Shuyan Lang ; Shaobo Wang
Author_Institution :
CAS Key Lab. of Microwave Remote Sensing, Nat. Space Sci. Center, Beijing, China
Abstract :
Airborne experiments were carried out to validate the spaceborne scatterometer. Airborne scatterometer use all the instruments of the spaceborne scatterometer to validate the system design and reliability, except the power amplifier and the antenna. The software of the scatterometer is redesigned due to the observation geometry of airborne platform. The wind retrieval results are compared with the HY-2A scatterometer and the real time wind vector measured on the ship at the center of testing region.
Keywords :
aerospace instrumentation; aerospace testing; artificial satellites; reliability; CFOSAT; China-France oceanographic satellite; HY-2A scatterometer; aerospace testing; airborne experiment; antenna; observation geometry; power amplifier; real time wind vector measurement; reliability; rotating fanbeam scatterometer; spaceborne RFSCAT; spaceborne scatterometer; wind retrieval; Antenna radiation patterns; Marine vehicles; Radar measurements; Satellites; Sea measurements; Spaceborne radar; Vectors; airborne scatterometer; fanbeam; sigma 0; wind retrieval;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1114-1
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723115
