The synthetic aperture method in the environment microwave interferometer radiometry

Author

Kutuza, B.G. ; Zagorin, G.K.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Radio Eng. & Electron., Russian Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russia

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

9-12 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

130

Abstract

The basic principles of space-borne two dimensional synthetic aperture microwave polarimetric interferometer function are considered. The main advantages of these systems over the well-known systems ESMR, SMMR and SSM/I are: a high rate of the observation scene image construction; the finite angular resolution; besides, they have no movable onboard construction elements on the spacecraft board, like the scanning antenna, and etc. The advantages of the synthetic aperture systems with hexagonally sampled interferometric radiometers are discussed.

Keywords

antenna theory; microwave imaging; radiometry; radiowave interferometers; space vehicles; antenna configuration; finite angular resolution; microwave emission; microwave interferometer radiometry; radiometric sensitivity; scanning antenna; scene image construction; spacecraft board; spacecraft visibility function; synthetic aperture microwave polarimetric interferometer; Digital signal processing; Earth; Microwave devices; Microwave radiometry; Microwave theory and techniques; Radio interferometry; Radiometers; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Space vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Theory and Techniques, 2003. 4th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7881-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICATT.2003.1239166

Filename

1239166