The property of sea surface scattering in millimeter wave $satellite-borne cloud profiling radar calibration

Author

Horie, Hiroaki ; Kuoriwa, Hroshi ; Ohno, Yuichi ; Okamoto, Hajime ; Kumagai, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Lab., Japan

Volume

5

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

2989

Abstract

For calibrating a satellite-borne cloud radar, widely distributed natural targets are necessary because of the difficulty of antenna beam pointing. Sea surface scattering is considered as one good target. The problem is that the sea surface scattering property in mm waves (95 GHz) has not been reported. The authors have measured the sea surface scattering by a CRL airborne cloud radar (SPIDER) performed around the Japan Sea area or the Pacific Ocean. The sea surface property measured from this experiment is similar to that measured in a microwave scatterometer.

Keywords

calibration; clouds; electromagnetic wave scattering; millimetre wave propagation; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; 95 GHz; CRL airborne cloud radar; Communications Research Laboratory; Japan Sea; Pacific Ocean; SPIDER; W-band airborne cloud radar; millimetre wave; natural targets; satellite-borne cloud profiling radar calibration; sea surface scattering; Calibration; Clouds; Microwave measurements; Millimeter wave radar; Radar antennas; Radar measurements; Radar scattering; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Surface waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7536-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026845

Filename

1026845