A preliminary survey of L-band radio frequency interference over China by using aquarius observations

Author

Huimin Lan ; Tianjie Zhao ; Zhongjun Zhang ; Jiancheng Shi

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Remote Sensing Sci., Beijing Normal Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

13-18 July 2014

Firstpage

1757

Lastpage

1760

Abstract

The Aquarius mission aiming at providing global map of sea surface salinity(SSS) is a collaboration between NASA and Argentina´s space agency, Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE). The mission has been providing L-band brightness temperature observations since its launch in June, 2011. Simultaneously, significant level of radio frequency interference (RFI) are present in the land observation. A wide range of RFI contaminations are present over China, which are found to coincide with the locations of airports. This may indicate that the RFI sources in China are mainly caused by cities´ air-traffic control radars.

Keywords

oceanography; salinity (geophysical); AD 2011 06; Aquarius mission; Aquarius observation; Argentina space agency; CONAE; China; Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales; L-band brightness temperature observation; L-band radio frequency interference preliminary survey; NASA collaboration; RFI level; RFI source; airport location; city air-traffic control radar; global SSS map; land observation; radio frequency interference level; sea surface salinity; wide RFI contamination range; Brightness temperature; Detectors; L-band; Polarimetry; Radiometers; Remote sensing; Stokes parameters; Aquarius; RFI; detection; third Stokes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946792

Filename

6946792