The processing of hexagonally sampled signals with standard rectangular techniques: application to 2d large aperture synthesis interferometric radiometers

In Earth observation programs there is a need of passive low frequency (L-band) measurements to monitor soil moisture and ocean salinity with high spatial resolution 10-20 km, a radiometric resolution of 1 K and a revisit time of 1-3 days. Compared to total power radiometers aperture synthesis inter...

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Autores: Camps Carmona, Adriano José|||0000-0002-9514-4992, Bará Temes, Francisco Javier, Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi|||0000-0001-5598-7955, Torres Torres, Francisco|||0000-0003-1160-6350
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1997
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/97879
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/97879
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/36.551946
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Telecommunication
Fast fourier transforms
Oceanographic techniques
rRemote sensing
Radiometry
Uhf measurement
Hydrological techniques
Geophysical techniques
Soil
Moisture measurement
Geophysical signal processing
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Sumario:In Earth observation programs there is a need of passive low frequency (L-band) measurements to monitor soil moisture and ocean salinity with high spatial resolution 10-20 km, a radiometric resolution of 1 K and a revisit time of 1-3 days. Compared to total power radiometers aperture synthesis interferometric radiometers are technologically attractive because of their reduced mass and hardware requirements. In this field it should be mentioned the one-dimensional (1D) linear interferometer ESTAR developed by NASA and MIRAS a two-dimensional (2D) Y-shaped interferometer currently under study by European Space Agency (ESA). Interferometer radiometers measure the correlation between pairs of nondirective antennas. Each complex correlation is a sample of the