The design of Deimos: a microwave radiometer with channels at 23.8 GHz and 50.3 GHz for the UK Met. Research Flight C-130 aircraft

Author

Hewison, T.J.

Author_Institution

Remote Sensing Instrum., UK Met. Office, UK

Volume

3

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

2261

Abstract

Details of the design of Deimos are presented. It is an airborne total-power radiometer with a two channel superheterodyne receiver, coupled onto a common axis, which is scanned between various downward views and two onboard black body calibration targets, over a three second period

Keywords

atmospheric measuring apparatus; geophysical equipment; meteorological instruments; microwave detectors; microwave measurement; millimetre wave detectors; millimetre wave measurement; oceanographic equipment; radiometry; remote sensing; 23.8 GHz; 50.3 GHz; C-130 aircraft; Deimos; EHF; Research Flight; SHF; UK Meteorological Office; airborne equipment; atmosphere; cloud; geophysical measurement; land surface; meteorology; microwave radiometer; millimetric instrument; mm wave; ocean; onboard black body calibration target; rain; sea surface; terrain mapping; total-power radiometer; two channel superheterodyne receiver; Aircraft; Calibration; Ice surface; Instruments; Lenses; Meteorology; Microwave radiometry; Mirrors; Remote sensing; Sea measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.524165

Filename

524165