Title
Modification Of The Beam Mismatch Correction Algorithm
Abstract
In August 2001, the orbit of the tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) satellite has been boosted from the altitude of 350 km to 400 km to extend its life time. The time delay between transmission of pulses and reception from rain/surface echoes occurs by one inter pulse period (IPP) [1]. Due to this time delay, one pulse transmitted at N - 1th angle bin is received at the receiving time gate of the next angle bin N. So the mismatch occurs between the transmitting antenna beam direction and the receiving antenna beam direction. This causes antenna gain reduction by 6 dB and leakage of rain/surface echo from the N - 1th angle bin to the Nth angle bin. In this paper, the modified beam mismatch correction algorithm is tested numerically, then it's applied to the standard algorithm of TRMM/precipitation radar to reduce the correction error of the current beam mismatch correction algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423701
IGARSS: 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM, VOLS 1-12: SENSING AND UNDERSTANDING OUR PLANET
Keywords
Field
DocType
testing,time measurement,satellites
Radar,Radar imaging,Low-frequency radar,Satellite,Antenna gain,Bin,Computer science,Remote sensing,Beam (structure),Fire-control radar
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-6996
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tetsuya Tagawa184.24
Shuji Shimizu243.39
Riko Oki3128.21