Performance verification and calibration of Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES)

Author

Ochiai, S. ; Irimajiri, Y. ; Kikuchi, K. ; Nishibori, T. ; Sano, T. ; Sato, R. ; Manabe, T. ; Ozeki, H. ; Shiotani, M.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

4275

Lastpage

4277

Abstract

Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) has been operated on orbit since late September 2009. The on-orbit performance of the SMILES submillimeter receiver satisfied the specifications and demonstrated a high capability of superconducting technology for atmospheric science by providing an invaluable low-noise atmospheric limb-emission spectral data in 640-GHz band. The accuracy of the limb spectral data are going to be improved by radiometric calibration based on the instrumental knowledge measured on the ground and measurements on orbit. The observation by SMILES was unfortunately halted because of a failure of the submillimeter-wave local oscillator on 21 April 2010.

Keywords

atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; calibration; radiometry; Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder; field-of-view calibration; frequency 640 GHz; international space station; low-noise atmospheric limb-emission spectral data; performance verification; radiometric calibration; Antenna measurements; Calibration; Extraterrestrial measurements; Microwave radiometry; Orbits; Superconducting microwave devices; SMILES; field-of-view calibration; international space station; microwave radiometer; radiometric calibration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5654162

Filename

5654162