Title
Potential Of X-Band Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar For Precipitation Retrieval Over Land
Abstract
Numerous space-borne X-band Synthetic Aperture Radars (X-SAR) systems will be launched by European agencies in the coming decade commencing this year. Those X-SARs can measure precipitation over land, thereby significantly augmenting the sensors that comprise the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM). This will incur relatively little incremental cost because they have already been funded. X-SAR measurements are especially beneficial over land where rainfall is difficult to measure by means of microwave radiometers that depend on scattering by frozen hydrometeors associated with that rain. The improved horizontal resolution of the retrievals will match the higher spatial resolution of mesoscale and general circulation models that will become available in the coming decade.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423645
IGARSS: 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM, VOLS 1-12: SENSING AND UNDERSTANDING OUR PLANET
Keywords
Field
DocType
rainfall, satellite, Synthetic Aperture Radar, inverse model
Meteorology,Satellite,Computer science,Synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,Mesoscale meteorology,Horizontal resolution,Image resolution,Radiometer,X band,Precipitation
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-6996
3
0.72
References 
Authors
1
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank Silvio Marzano112928.79
G. Poccia230.72
R. Cantelmi330.72
Nazzareno Pierdicca427862.69
James A. Weinman5518.65
V. Chandrasekar630.72
Alberto Mugnai75617.07