Initial Results of an Airborne Light-Weight L-Band Radiometer

Author

Valencia, E. ; Acevo, R. ; Bosch-Lluis, Xavier ; Aguasca, A. ; Rodriiguez-Alvarez, N. ; Ramos-Perez, I. ; Marchan-Hernandez, J.F. ; Glenat, M. ; Bou, F. ; Camps, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. Teor. del Senyal i Comunicacions, Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Barcelona

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

This paper presents the description and first results on the performance of a light-weight airborne L-band radiometer. This radiometer will be used in the SMOS CAL/VAL activities in the REMEDHUS site (Salamanca, Spain). First, a brief description of the overall system is presented. The first results obtained during a field experiment over the Ebro river mouth are then presented. These include flights over the sea shore (fresh and sea water) and land (dry and irrigated rice fields). This field experiment has also served to test the aircraft and the data processing algorithms that will be used in future campaigns with PAU-ORA, a reduced airborne demonstrator version of the PAU instrument.

Keywords

hydrological equipment; radiometers; remote sensing; rivers; Ebro river mouth; PAU instrument; PAU-ORA; REMEDHUS site; SMOS CAL/VAL activities; Salamanca; Spain; airborne demonstrator version; airborne light-weight L-band radiometer; data processing algorithms; field experiment; sea shore; L-band; Radiometry; L-band radiometer; PAU; SMOS; airborne; brightness temperature; calibration; geo-rectification; geo-reference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779210

Filename

4779210