Airborne multifunction microwave remote sensing system

Dehai Zhang; Jingshan Jiang; Zhenfan Zheng; Shuanrong Wang; Heguang Liu; Bo Sun; Ke Xu; Shengwei Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.467697

30 April 2003 Airborne multifunction microwave remote sensing system

Dehai Zhang, Jingshan Jiang, Zhenfan Zheng, Shuanrong Wang, Heguang Liu, Bo Sun, Ke Xu, Shengwei Zhang

Proceedings Volume 4894, Microwave Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Environment III; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467697
Event: Third International Asia-Pacific Environmental Remote Sensing Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Ocean, Environment, and Space, 2002, Hangzhou, China

Abstract

An airborne multi-function microwave remote sensing system has been developed in order to verify the design and performance of future Chinese spaceborne system. Future Chinese spaceborne microwave remote sensing system is for ocean research, atmosphere research and soil moisture content monitoring. Like spaceborne system, the airborne system also includes altimetry, scatterometry and radiometry functions. There are five operate modes: altimetry mode, scatterometry mode, radiometry mode, altimetry and radiometry mode, scatterometry and radiometry mode. The operate mode can be changed by program. There are five channels in radiometry mode. The altimetry mode, the scatterometry mode and the second channel of radiometry mode operate at the same Ku band. In the airborne system, the scatterometry mode uses two pyramidal horn antennae. One is for horizontal polarization. The other is for vertical polarization. The horizontal polarization antenna is also used in the altimetry mode. The radiometry mode uses five pyramidal horn antennae. Flight experiments have been conducted on southern sea of China. The results verify the design and performance of the airborne multi-function microwave remote sensing system. They also show that the design of future Chinese spaceborne system is practicable. In this paper, the principle of airborne system is briefly introduced. Flight experiments and results are described.

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Dehai Zhang, Jingshan Jiang, Zhenfan Zheng, Shuanrong Wang, Heguang Liu, Bo Sun, Ke Xu, and Shengwei Zhang "Airborne multifunction microwave remote sensing system", Proc. SPIE 4894, Microwave Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Environment III, (30 April 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467697

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