Title
SMAP L-Band Microwave Radiometer: Instrument Design and First Year on Orbit
Abstract
The Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) L-band microwave radiometer is a conical scanning instrument designed to measure soil moisture with 4% volumetric accuracy at 40-km spatial resolution. SMAP is NASA's first Earth Systematic Mission developed in response to its first Earth science decadal survey. Here, the design is reviewed and the results of its first year on orbit are presented. Unique fea...
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/TGRS.2016.2631978
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Microwave radiometry,Calibration,Antennas,Instruments,Antenna measurements,Soil moisture,Radio frequency
Polarimetry,L band,Remote sensing,Conical scanning,Noise temperature,Temporal resolution,Mathematics,Calibration,Radiometer,Microwave radiometer
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
4
0196-2892
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
16
Authors
28