• DocumentCode
    2111521
  • Title

    Galactic noise and passive microwave remote sensing from space at L-band

  • Author

    Le Vine, D.M. ; Abraham, S.

  • Author_Institution
    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    1581
  • Abstract
    An important consideration for remote sensing measurements at 1.4 GHz (L-band) is radiation from extraterrestrial sources such as hydrogen. Unlike the cosmic background, this radiation is spatially and temporally variable in the local sky. Radio astronomy surveys are employed to produce maps of equivalent brightness temperature with sufficient spatial and radiometric accuracy to improve approximations which have been used in the past
  • Keywords
    radiofrequency cosmic radiation; radiofrequency interference; remote sensing; Galactic noise; L-band; equivalent brightness temperature maps; extraterrestrial sources; passive microwave remote sensing; radio astronomy surveys; remote sensing measurements; Brightness temperature; Extraterrestrial measurements; Frequency; Hydrogen; L-band; Microwave radiometry; Ocean temperature; Passive microwave remote sensing; Remote sensing; Sea surface;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
  • Conference_Location
    Sydney, NSW
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7031-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2001.977000
  • Filename
    977000