Cross-Validation of Wind Products from Seawinds and AMSR on ADEOS-II

Author

Ebuchi, Naoto

Author_Institution

Inst. of Low Temp. Sci., Hokkaido Univ.

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

The Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II (ADEOS-II), which carried a microwave radiometer, AMSR, and microwave scatterometer, SeaWinds, provided us with unique opportunity to validate wind products from the both sensors. Two examples of the cross-validation of wind observations by spaceborne active and passive microwave sensors are presented in this paper. These examples clearly exhibited importance of the sensor synergy of the active and passive microwave sensors, and demonstrated needs of future missions with a combination of microwave scatterometer and radiometer onboard the same satellite to achieve simultaneous observation.

Keywords

remote sensing by radar; wind; ADEOS-II; AMSR; Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II; SeaWinds; microwave radiometer; microwave scatterometer; sensor synergy; spaceborne active-passive microwave sensors; wind products cross-validation; Atmospheric measurements; Extraterrestrial measurements; Microwave radiometry; Microwave sensors; Ocean temperature; Radar measurements; Rain; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Wind speed; ADEOS-II; AMSR; SeaWinds; marine surface wind; validation;

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.2008.4778997

Filename

4778997