Remote sensing of mountain snow using active microwave sensors: a review

This work provides an overview of various methods for estimating snow cover and properties in high mountains using remote sensing techniques involving microwaves. Satellite-based remote sensing with its characteristics such as synoptic view, repetitive coverage and uniformity over large areas has great potential for identifying the temporal snow cover. Many sensors have been used in the past with various algorithms and accuracies for this purpose. These methods have been improving with the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar sensors, working in different microwave frequencies, polarisation and acquisition modes. The limitations, advantages and drawbacks are illustrated while error sources and strategies on how to ease their impacts are also reviewed. An extensive list of references, with an emphasis on studies since 1990s, allows the reader to delve into specific topics.     

全息测量接收机系统

简单介绍了微波全息测量的原理、用于微波全息测量的接收机系统,然后比较详细地叙述了对该接收机系统相位稳定性的测试,指出了当前接收系统的主要问题。并对接收系统的改进做了两种设计方案。     

Tomographic airborne ground penetrating radar imaging: Achievable spatial resolution and on-field assessment

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) airborne systems are gaining an increasing attention as effective monitoring tools capable of underground investigation of wide areas. With respect to this frame, the paper deals with a reconstruction approach specifically designed to image buried targets from airborne gathered scattered field data. The role of the measurement configuration is investigated in order to address the practical problem of how multi-monostatic and multi-frequency data should be gathered, in terms of synthetic aperture length and frequency range, and how the available data affect the achievable reconstruction capabilities. Such an analysis allows us to evaluate the performance of the reconstruction approach in terms of transversal and depth resolution limits. Finally, an experimental validation of the approach is performed by processing real data.     

太阳微波爆发FFS的基本单元

参加了Ｆｌａｒｅｓ２２和Ｍａｘ＇９１国际联合观测之后，我们处理了三个频率（１．４２，２．８４，３．６７ＧＨｚ）和四个频率（１．４２，２．００，２．８４，４．００ＧＨｚ）或（１．４２，２．１３，２．８４，４．２６ＧＨｚ）快速采样射电望远镜的观测资料。结果除了发现射电爆发源的局部区域中存在有射电辐射的第四种基本分量而外，还在微波爆发快速精细结构中发现了三种基本时间单元。其量级分别是：０．１秒＞τ１≥１毫秒；１秒＞τ２≥０．１秒；１００秒＞τ３≥１秒。尽管出现在各自基本时间单元内的ＦＦＳ事件的形态及特性各自不同，但是，叠加在射电爆发背景之上的特性，构成了它们的共同属性。三种基本时间单元的确认，对于研究微波快速活动的精细时间结构，划分ＦＦＳ事件的种类找到了根据。三种基本时间单元的研究，对于深入探讨产生ＦＦＳ源的ＥＣＭ理论，也具有重要的科学价值。     

SZ-4飞船多模态传感器辐射模态数据处理与质量评价研究

研究了飞船多模态传感器中辐射模态1B产品数据的处理以及生成全球亮温图的方法,对辐射模态数据与SSM/I和AMSR-E星载微波辐射计对应通道进行了星星比对分析,建立了对应通道之间的线性关系。结果表明,飞船辐射模态亮温与SSM/I及AMSR-E的测量值在绝对幅度上相差较大,但却高度的线性相关,这在一定程度上说明了SZ-4辐射模态各通道亮温对地表微波辐射响应的能力。     

Features of ocean microwave emission changed by wind at 6 GHz

Ocean microwave emissions changed by the ocean wind at 6 GHz were investigated by combining data of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) and SeaWinds, both aboard the Advanced Earth Observation Satellite-II (ADEOS-II). This study was undertaken to improve the accuracy of the sea surface temperature (SST) retrieved from the AMSR 6 GHz data. Two quantities, 6V*(H*), were defined by the brightness temperature of the AMSR at 6 GHz with two polarizations (V-pol and H-pol), adjusted for atmospheric effects and with a calm ocean surface emission removed. These quantities represent a microwave emission change due to the ocean wind at 6 GHz. 6V* does not change in a region where 6H* is less than around 4 K (referred to as z0). Both 6V* and 6H* increase above z0. The 6V* to 6H* ratio, sp, varies with the relative wind directions. Furthermore, the sp values vary with the SST, between the northern and southern hemisphere, and seasonally. By specifying appropriate values for z0 and sp, the SST error between AMSR and buoy measurement became flat against 6H*, which is related to the ocean wind. Two extreme cases were observed: the Arabian Sea in summer and the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean in winter. The air-sea temperature difference in the former case was largely positive, while it was largely negative in the latter. The 6V* and 6H* relations differed from global conditions in both cases, which resulted in incorrect SSTs in both areas when global coefficients were applied.     

不容忽视的微波通信测量

简要介绍了微波通信技术,根据微波传播特性与光的传播特性相似的原理,提出了利用测量中有关觇标高计算公式进行微波天线高度计算的方法,推导出确定微波通道保护参数的公式,并结合实践给出应用示例。     

Advances in microwave remote sensing of the ocean and atmosphere

This article reviews the current state-of-the-art and future prospects of the microwave techniques for remote sensing of the earth’s atmosphere and ocean. Geophysical parameters and their relationship with measured thermal microwave radiation is established through radiative transfer processes. The atmospheric temperature profile obtained from microwave sounding unit (msu) onboardtiros-N series of satellites is operational and is used for numerical weather prediction. The demonstrated applications of scanning multichannel microwave radiometer (smmr) onboard most recent and advancedseasat satellite are highlighted.The capability ofseasat active sensors for monitoring ocean parameters have also been indicated. Feasible applications of microwave techniquese.g. moisture profile with advanced moisture sounder (amsu), and surface pressure from multifrequency active microwave pressure sounder (mps) are also described. Finally the recent and advanced microwave limb sounding (mls) technique and its applications to upper atmospheric research has been reviewed.     

海冰微波辐射的数值模式和遥感实验测量

本文用多频段微波辐射计(1.4,3.09,5.4,36 GHz)对辽东湾和渤海湾的海冰热辐射进行了遥感测量。海冰模拟为一层介电强起伏的各向异性的随机介质。求解随机介质的辐射传输方程,得到海冰的辐射亮度温度。数值计算的结果与实验数据进行了比较,并对辐射亮度温度和海冰各种参数之间的函数关系进行了讨论。     

利用西北印度洋船测数据评估基于卫星的海表面温度

本文描述了一次夏季在西北印度洋进行的调查船水文测量,用船测数据评估卫星海面表温度,并寻找影响海表面温度误差的主要因素。我们考虑了两种卫星数据,第一种是微波遥感产品——热带降雨测量任务微波成像仪TMI数据,另外一种是融合了微波,红外线,以及少部分观测数据的融合数据产品——可处理海表温度和海冰分析OSTIA数据。结果表明融合数据的日平均海表面温度的平均误差和均方根误差都比微波遥感小。这一结果证明了融合红外线遥感,微波遥感以及观测数据来提高海表面温度数据质量的必要性。此外,我们分析了海表面温度误差与各项水文参数之间的相关关系,包括风速,大气温度,想对湿度,大气压力,能见度。结果表明风速与TMI海表面温度误差的相关系数最大。而大气温度是影响OSTIA海表面温度误差最重要的因素;与此同时,想对湿度与海表面温度误差的相关系数也很高。