Title :
Calibration and data preprocessing for the flight experiment of Chinese spaceborne precipitation measurement radar
Author :
Yin Honggang ; Yang, Guo ; Shang Jian ; Wu Qiong ; Guo Yang
Author_Institution :
Nat. Satellite Meteorol. Center CMA, China
Abstract :
In China, two precipitation measurement radars (PMR) have been developed and deployed on aircrafts to carry out field experiments since July 2010. As one important part, calibration experiments using the active radar calibrator (ARC) are conducted for the airborne PMRs. Then those radar parameters deduced from external calibration are used to preprocess radar measurements to obtain the effective radar reflectivity factor. The results of calibration and data preprocessing are also analyzed in this paper.
Keywords :
atmospheric precipitation; atmospheric techniques; calibration; remote sensing by radar; AD 2010 07; China; active radar calibrator; airborne PMR; calibration; data preprocessing; effective radar reflectivity factor; field experiment; flight experiment; spaceborne precipitation measurement radar; Antenna measurements; Calibration; Gain; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Spaceborne radar; Calibration; airborne radar; data preprocessing;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1003-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049289
