The Legacy of Scatterometers: Review of applications and perspective

S Singh, RK Tiwari, V Sood, R Kaur… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A scatterometer, as an active microwave radar sensor, measures the return of radar waves
in the form of a backscatter coefficient after reflection or scattering from Earth's surface. The …

Potential applications of SCATSAT-1 satellite sensor: a systematic review

S Singh, RK Tiwari, HS Gusain, V Sood - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Ku-band (13.5 GHz) based scatterometer is the main sensor onboard Scatterometer
Satellite (SCATSAT-1) launched on 26th September 2016 by Indian Space Research …

An Instrument Error Correlation Model for Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry

CE Powell, CS Ruf, DS McKague, T Wang, A Russel - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
All sensing systems have some inherent error. Often, these errors are systematic, and
observations taken within a similar region of space and time can have correlated error …

Intercalibration of backscatter measurements among Ku-band scatterometers onboard the Chinese HY-2 satellite constellation

Z Wang, J Zou, Y Zhang, A Stoffelen, W Lin, Y He… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Chinese HY-2D satellite was launched on 19 May 2021, carrying a Ku-band
scatterometer. Together with the operating scatterometers onboard the HY-2B and HY-2C …

The Gain-Related Calibration of HY-2B Scatterometer Using Natural Targets

B Mu, Y Zhang, M Lin, J Liu, C Ma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The HY-2 series scatterometers (HSCAT) are now providing global Ku-band radar
observations. In order to build two-decade normalized radar cross section () datasets with …

Structures of Error Covariance in Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry

C Powell - 2024 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Observations represent the largest cost driver in the environmental prediction enterprise.
This dissertation aims to enhance the return on investment for satellite observatories by …

[PDF][PDF] An Instrument Error Correlation Model for GNSS Reflectometry

CE Powell, CS Ruf, DS McKague, T Wang, A Russel - 2024 - preprints.org
All sensing systems have some inherent error. Often, these errors are systematic, and
observations taken within a similar region of space and time can have correlated error …

RapidScat backscatter measurement validation

R Alsabah, A Al-Sabbagh, J Zec - Journal of Applied Remote …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Scatterometers are microwave radars deployed to estimate global wind speeds and
directions over the sea surface by measuring normalized radar cross-section (σo) of the sea …

Radiometric Calibration of RapidScat Using the GPM Microwave Imager

A Al-Sabbagh, R Alsabah, J Zec - Proceedings, 2018 - mdpi.com
Flying in a non-Sun-synchronous orbit, RapidScat is the first scatterometer capable of
measuring ocean vector winds over the full diurnal cycle, instead of observing a given …

Calibration of RapidScat Brightness Temperature

A Al-Sabbagh, R Alsabah, J Zec - 2018 IEEE 15th Specialist …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NASA RapidScat is the first satellite scatterometer that flown in non-Sun-synchronous orbit.
Its unique orbit enabled collocated measurements with multiple satellite remote-sensing …