Simulation Framework and Case Studies for the Design of Sea Surface Salinity Remote Sensing Missions
L -band microwave radiometers have now been used to measure sea surface salinity (SSS) from space for over a decade with the SMOS, Aquarius, and SMAP missions, and it is expected that the launch of the CIMR mission in the later half of this decade will ensure measurement continuity in the near futur...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:ec868a21458a41c4bfadd44fad94d100 2023-05-15T18:25:30+02:00 Simulation Framework and Case Studies for the Design of Sea Surface Salinity Remote Sensing Missions Alexander Akins Shannon Brown Tong Lee Sidharth Misra Simon Yueh 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3234407 https://doaj.org/article/ec868a21458a41c4bfadd44fad94d100 EN eng IEEE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10007056/ https://doaj.org/toc/2151-1535 2151-1535 doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3234407 https://doaj.org/article/ec868a21458a41c4bfadd44fad94d100 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol 16, Pp 1321-1334 (2023) Microwave radiometry ocean salinity open source software Ocean engineering TC1501-1800 Geophysics. Cosmic physics QC801-809 article 2023 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3234407 2023-01-29T01:30:26Z L -band microwave radiometers have now been used to measure sea surface salinity (SSS) from space for over a decade with the SMOS, Aquarius, and SMAP missions, and it is expected that the launch of the CIMR mission in the later half of this decade will ensure measurement continuity in the near future. Beyond these missions, it is useful to consider how future missions can be designed to meet different scientific objectives and performance requirements as well as to fit within different cost spaces. In this article, we present a software simulator for remote sensing measurements of ocean state capable of generating L1- and L2- equivalent data products for an arbitrary spacecraft mission including multifrequency fixed-pointing or scanning microwave radiometers.This simulator is then applied to case studies of SSS measurement over selected areas of interest, including the Gulf Stream, Southern Ocean, and Pacific tropical instability wave regions. These simulations illustrate how different design choices concerning receiver bandwidth and revisit time can improve the detection of SSS features in these regions from the mesoscale to the seasonal scale. Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Pacific Southern Ocean IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 16 1321 1334 |
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L -band microwave radiometers have now been used to measure sea surface salinity (SSS) from space for over a decade with the SMOS, Aquarius, and SMAP missions, and it is expected that the launch of the CIMR mission in the later half of this decade will ensure measurement continuity in the near future. Beyond these missions, it is useful to consider how future missions can be designed to meet different scientific objectives and performance requirements as well as to fit within different cost spaces. In this article, we present a software simulator for remote sensing measurements of ocean state capable of generating L1- and L2- equivalent data products for an arbitrary spacecraft mission including multifrequency fixed-pointing or scanning microwave radiometers.This simulator is then applied to case studies of SSS measurement over selected areas of interest, including the Gulf Stream, Southern Ocean, and Pacific tropical instability wave regions. These simulations illustrate how different design choices concerning receiver bandwidth and revisit time can improve the detection of SSS features in these regions from the mesoscale to the seasonal scale. |
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Simulation Framework and Case Studies for the Design of Sea Surface Salinity Remote Sensing Missions |
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