Title
Windsat Post-Launch Calibration
Abstract
WindSat, an experimental sensor on the Coriolis mission launched in January 2003, is intended to measure the partially polarized emission from the ocean surface, and thereby indirectly measure the ocean surface wind vector. The WindSat calibration and validation process has two primary purposes. The first is to verify the WindSat radiometer absolute accuracy, which is driven by the calibration target accuracy and knowledge, the receiver performance, the antenna characterization and antenna pattern correction, and the geolocation and pointing processing. The second purpose is to validate the sea surface wind speed and direction environmental data products. A key part of this process to identify and quantify error sources and, if necessary, generate new sensor calibration coefficients, algorithms, and environmental data record (EDR) retrievals to bring the data products into specification. This paper focuses on the calibration of the brightness temperatures, the data product used to retrieve environmental parameters such as wind vector.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1369040
IGARSS 2004: IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS, VOLS 1-7: SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY: EXPLORING AND MANAGING A CHANGING PLANET
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
remote sensing,wind,oceanography,point process,brightness temperature,sea,radiometry,calibration,wind speed
Conference
2153-6996
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.66
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
E. Twarog1347.36
P. W. Gaiser2152.40
B. Purdy320.66
W. Linwood Jones420652.62
K. St. germain57911.35
Gene A. Poe618431.87