Title :
Monitoring the spatial and temporal homogeinty of microwave emission on the East-Antarctic plateau
Author :
Macelloni, G. ; Brogioni, M. ; Pettinato, S. ; Paloscia, S. ; Pampaloni, P. ; Santi, E.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Appl. Phys., IFAC-CNR, Firenze, Italy
Abstract :
The East Antarctic plateau is a part of Antarctica extending several hundred kilometers around the South Pole with an average elevation close to 3000 m a.s.l. This area provides unique opportunities for various scientific disciplines including Glaciology, Atmospheric and Earth Sciences. In addition, there is growing interest, in using the Antarctic plateau, for calibrating and validating data of satellite-borne microwave radiometers. This is because the size, structure, spatial homogeneity and thermal stability of this area. In this paper we analyse temporal and spatial variability of multi-frequency microwave emission from an area around the Dome-C scientific station by using AMSR-E data collected along the years 2003-2008. From the analysis two candidates areas were founded.
Keywords :
atmospheric temperature; calibration; radiometry; remote sensing; AD 2003 to 2008; AMSR-E data; Dome-C scientific station; East Antarctic plateau; South Pole; multifrequency microwave emission; satellite calibration; satellite-borne microwave radiometers; spatial homogeneity; spatial variability; temporal variability; thermal stability; Antarctica; Brightness temperature; Microwave FET integrated circuits; Microwave integrated circuits; Microwave radiometry; Orbits; Pixel; AMSR-E; Antarctic; satellite calibration;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad), 2010 11th Specialist Meeting on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8120-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8121-7
DOI :
10.1109/MICRORAD.2010.5559550
