Paper Info
Title
The Windsat Space Borne Polarimetric Microwave Radiometer: Sensor Description And Mission Overview
Abstract
The wind vector affects a broad range of naval missions, including strategic ship movement and positioning, aircraft carrier operations, aircraft deployment, effective weapons use, underway replenishment, and littoral operations. Furthermore. accurate wind vector data aids in short-term weather forecasting, the issuing of timely weather warnings, and the gathering of general climatological data. WindSat is a satellite-based multi-frequency polarimetric microwave radiometer developed by the Naval Research Laboratory for the U. S. Navy and the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Integrated Program Office (IPO). It is designed to demonstrate the capability of polarimetric microwave radiometry to measure the ocean surface wind vector from space. The sensor provides risk reduction for the development of the Conical Microwave Imager Sounder (CMIS), which is planned to provide wind vector data operationally starting in 2010.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1369039
IGARSS 2004: IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS, VOLS 1-7: SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY: EXPLORING AND MANAGING A CHANGING PLANET
Keywords
Field
DocType
microwave radiometer, polarimetry, Stokes parameters, ocean winds
Meteorology,Satellite,WINDSAT,Computer science,Remote sensing,Satellite system,Radiometry,Microwave imaging,NPOESS,Weather forecasting,Microwave radiometer
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-6996
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter W. Gaiser115521.44
E. Twarog2347.36
Li Li3728.73
Karen Michele St Germain400.34
Gene A. Poe518431.87
William E. Purdy6417.53
Zorana Jelenak72712.59
Paul S. Chang82817.04
Laurence N. Connor9298.28