Title :
High precision and high resolution global precipitation map from satellite data
Author :
Kenichi Okamoto;Nobuhiro Takahashi;Koyuru Iwanami;Shoichi Shige;Takuji Kubota
Author_Institution :
Tottori University of Environmental Studies, Tottori, 689-111 Japan
Abstract :
The five year research project, “The Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP)” sponsored by Japan Science and Technology Agency(JST) ended in March 2008. The research project aimed at developing microwave radiometer rain rate retrieval algorithms based on the reliable physical models of precipitations and producing high precision and high resolution global precipitation maps only from the satellite data. This paper reviews the research activities of GSMaP.
Keywords :
"Satellite broadcasting","Rain","Microwave radiometry","Spaceborne radar","Brightness temperature","Table lookup","Information retrieval","Databases","Water resources","Spatial resolution"
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, 2008. MICRORAD 2008
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1986-9
DOI :
10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579485
