Estimation of ATMS Antenna Emission From Cold Space Observations

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• Journal Title:
  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• Personal Author:
  Yang, Hu ; Weng, Fuzhong ; Anderson, Kent
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research)
• Description:
  The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite is a total power radiometer and scans across the track with a range of ±52.77° from nadir. It has 22 channels and measures the microwave radiation at either quasi-vertical or quasi-horizontal polarization from the Earth's atmosphere. The ATMS scanning reflector is made of beryllium coated with gold and can have an emission due to the surface roughness. During prelaunch phase, an estimate of the reflector emissivity was not explored. In this paper, a new methodology is developed to assess the antenna emission from the ATMS pitch-over observations.
• Keywords:
  Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder Antenna Emissivity ATMS SNPP Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership
• Source:
  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54(8), 4479 - 4487
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2016.2542526
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  Other
• Compliance:
  Submitted
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  urn:sha256:a148529b49fee4e4a9bb4182d33fd41897c2c3c9af2ec6c8abf288451a5bcf6d
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/41079/noaa_41079_DS1.pdf
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