Title :
Aerial flihgt calibration test of precipitation radar
Author :
Chonghui Zhao ; Wei Xiang ; Danru Yu ; Zhiqiang Ge ; Zhaoyang Li ; Xiaobin Feng
Author_Institution :
Sci. & Technol. on Millimeter-wave Lab., Beijing, China
Abstract :
As an active scatterometer for the quantitative measurement of precipitation intensity, the spaceborne precipitation radar (PR) can obtain three-dimensional precipitation structure within the observation region. This paper introduces the Ka band precipitation radar (PR-Ka) engineering model and the aerial flight calibration test. Aerial flight calibration test results show that the precision of calibration is as small as 0.26dB. It means that the radar measurement precision meets the requirements of scientific application.
Keywords :
aerospace simulation; calibration; precipitation; spaceborne radar; 3D precipitation structure; active scatterometer; aerial flight calibration test; engineering model; observation region; precipitation intensity; quantitative measurement; radar measurement precision; spaceborne precipitation radar; ARC; FY-3; Ka; calibration; spaceborne precipitation radar;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Conference 2013, IET International
Conference_Location :
Xi´an
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-603-1
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.0112
