Development of an active radar calibrator for the TRMM precipitation radar

Author

Kumagai, Hiroshi ; Kozu, Toshiaki ; Satake, Makoto ; Hanado, Hiroshi ; Okamoto, Kenichi

Author_Institution

Kashima Space Res. Center, Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

33

Issue

6

fYear

1995

fDate

11/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1316

Lastpage

1318

Abstract

An active radar calibrator (ARC) was developed for the calibration of the first spaceborne Precipitation Radar (PR) onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. The ARC has three functions of the radar receiver, beacon-signal transmitter, and delayed-transponder. A ground-based measurement using a prototype ARC and a bread-board model of the TRMM-PR demonstrated the ARC´s capability for the on-orbit TRMM-PR calibration

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; calibration; meteorological radar; radar applications; rain; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; ARC; SAR imaging; TRMM precipitation radar; Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission; active radar calibrator; atmosphere; beacon-signal transmitter; bread-board model; calibration; delayed-transponder; first spaceborne Precipitation Radar; meteorology; radar receiver; radar remote sensing; rain; rainfall; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; Calibration; Delay; Frequency conversion; Prototypes; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Radar measurements; Spaceborne radar; Transmitters; Transponders;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/36.477186

Filename

477186