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The L-band Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS), scheduled to be flown as single payload on board the European Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, has a very wide field of view and synthesizes narrow beams by means of two-dimensional (2-D) interferometry, the same concept used in radio astronomy. Wide field of view is indeed a key feature of this radiometer, which leads naturally to the measurement of the full vector of brightness temperatures of the image. This paper analyzes the theory of polarimetry in the 2-D wide-field-of-view microwave interferometry and describes the way MIRAS will measure the polarimetric brightness temperatures.
Published in:
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:40
,
Issue:
8
)
Date of Publication: Aug 2002
- Page(s):
- 1755 - 1768
- ISSN :
- 0196-2892
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 7416287
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/TGRS.2002.802489
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
- 07 November 2002
- Issue Date :
- Aug 2002
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- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
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