This paper is concerned with the radiometric sensitivity computation of an aperture synthesis interferometric radiometer devoted to Earth observation. The impact of system parameters and the use of simultaneous redundant ...

Improved weather forecast and climate monitoring rely on a better quantification of soil moisture (SM) and sea surface salinity (SSS). The most accurate way to measure them from remote sensors is by using radiometers at L ...

Spaceborne and ground-based radiometric measurements at microwave and millimeterwave frequencies have proved able to monitor hydrometeors, but at present the angular resolution of those systems is limited by the radiometer's ...

The theory of thermal microwave emission from a bounded medium containing random nonspherical discrete scatters is studied. It is known that for a medium of constant temperature the emissivities can be related to the ...

The correlation between the visibility samples' noise of an aperture synthesis radiometer are required for the computation of the recovered temperature noise of a given pixel and of the improvement introduced by baseline ...

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 ...

Differences among the channels that form an interferometric radiometer result in amplitude and phase errors in the cross correlations measured from the signals collected by each pair of antennas (visibility samples). Since ...

There is an interest for climatology and meteorology to map hydrometeors, and in particular precipitation, both over the entire globe and across large defined regions. To achieve this goal at the proper spatial and temporal ...