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

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

1673

Lastpage

1675

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1114-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723115

Filename

6723115