Measurement simulations from spaceborne weather radar

Author

Gabella, Marco ; Pavone, Sebastiano ; Perona, Giovanni ; Zoccali, Ilaria

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

530

Abstract

The need to oversee the meteorological phenomena evolution in those areas of the Earth which are not covered by ground-based meteorological radar is now possible with spaceborne weather radar. The Spaceborne Weather Radar Simulator (SWRS) is a software program developed to simulate the reflected power from ground, sea and meteorological targets. It has been constructed in such a way to accept inputs concerning both, instrument and target specifications

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; backscatter; geophysics computing; meteorological radar; radar cross-sections; radar theory; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; SWRS; Spaceborne Weather Radar Simulator; atmosphere; measurement technique; meteorological radar; radar remote sensing; radar theory; simulation; software program; spaceborne radar; weather radar; Doppler radar; Frequency estimation; Instruments; Meteorological radar; Meteorology; Radar antennas; Satellites; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Spaceborne radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.861619

Filename

861619