Impact of Correlators and Receivers Failures on the MIRAS Instrument Onboard SMOS

Author

Anterrieu, Eric ; Khazaal, Ali ; Carfantan, Hervé

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Astrophys. de Toulouse-Tarbes, Univ. de Toulouse & CNRS, Toulouse

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

Synthetic aperture imaging radiometers (SAIR) are powerful instruments for high-resolution observation of the Earth surface at low microwave frequencies. This article deals with the impact of correlators and receivers failures on the reconstruction process which aims at inverting the interferometric data for retrieving the radiometric brightness temperature distribution of the scene under observation. Numerical simulations are carried out for the SMOS space mission, a project led by the European Space Agency and devoted to the remote sensing of soil moisture and ocean salinity from a low orbit platform.

Keywords

geophysical signal processing; hydrological techniques; inverse problems; numerical analysis; oceanographic techniques; radiometers; radiometry; European Space Agency; MIRAS instrument; Microwave Imaging Radiometer by Aperture Synthesis; SMOS space mission; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity; Synthetic Aperture Imaging Radiometers; correlator failure effects; high resolution Earth surface observation; interferometric data inversion; numerical simulations; radiometric brightness temperature distribution; receiver failure effects; remote sensing; Correlators; Earth; High-resolution imaging; Instruments; Microwave imaging; Ocean temperature; Radiometers; Sea surface; Space missions; Surface reconstruction; Failure analysis; Inverse problems; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779126

Filename

4779126