ASCAT scatterometer ocean calibration
2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 23-28 July 2007, Barcelona The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is responsible for the absolute calibration of the new Advanced scatterometer (ASCAT), onboard MetOp-A, which ma...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/81345 2024-02-11T10:08:31+01:00 ASCAT scatterometer ocean calibration Portabella, Marcos Stoffelen, Ad Verspeek, Jeroen Verhoef, Anton Vogelzang, J. 2007-07 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/81345 https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423361 en eng Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423361 No 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: 9890492 (2007) 978-1-4244-1211-2 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/81345 doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423361 none capĂtulo de libro http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248 2007 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423361 2024-01-16T09:51:45Z 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 23-28 July 2007, Barcelona The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is responsible for the absolute calibration of the new Advanced scatterometer (ASCAT), onboard MetOp-A, which mainly relies on the use of transponders. An alternative calibration method, which uses scatterometer measurements over the ocean, is presented here. The method is based on the knowledge of the backscatter signal modulation by the ocean surface, which is derived from previous C-band scatterometer missions, and on the use of numerical weather prediction wind output as calibration reference. The method proves to be very useful in providing guidance to EUMETSAT calibration efforts and provides continuity of the C- band scatterometers. Moreover, the ocean calibration results in very good quality winds. As such, within the framework of the EUMETSAT Ocean & Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute has released a demonstration ASCAT 25-km wind product, which is available at http ://www.knmi.nl/scatterometer since 28 March 2007 Peer Reviewed Book Part Sea ice Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2539 2542 |
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2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 23-28 July 2007, Barcelona The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is responsible for the absolute calibration of the new Advanced scatterometer (ASCAT), onboard MetOp-A, which mainly relies on the use of transponders. An alternative calibration method, which uses scatterometer measurements over the ocean, is presented here. The method is based on the knowledge of the backscatter signal modulation by the ocean surface, which is derived from previous C-band scatterometer missions, and on the use of numerical weather prediction wind output as calibration reference. The method proves to be very useful in providing guidance to EUMETSAT calibration efforts and provides continuity of the C- band scatterometers. Moreover, the ocean calibration results in very good quality winds. As such, within the framework of the EUMETSAT Ocean & Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute has released a demonstration ASCAT 25-km wind product, which is available at http ://www.knmi.nl/scatterometer since 28 March 2007 Peer Reviewed |
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ASCAT scatterometer ocean calibration |
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