PAU/RAD: Design and Preliminary Calibration Results of a New L-Band Pseudo-Correlation Radiometer Concept
The Passive Advanced Unit (PAU) for ocean monitoring is a new type of instrument that combines in a single receiver and without time multiplexing, a polarimetric pseudo-correlation microwave radiometer at L-band (PAU-RAD) and a GPS reflectometer (PAU-GNSS/R). These instruments in conjunction with an...
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| author | Enric Valencia Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez Isaac Ramos-Perez Adriano Camps Xavier Bosch-Lluis |
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| description | The Passive Advanced Unit (PAU) for ocean monitoring is a new type of instrument that combines in a single receiver and without time multiplexing, a polarimetric pseudo-correlation microwave radiometer at L-band (PAU-RAD) and a GPS reflectometer (PAU-GNSS/R). These instruments in conjunction with an infra-red radiometer (PAU-IR) will respectively provide the sea surface temperature and the sea state information needed to accurately retrieve the sea surface salinity from the radiometric measurements. PAU will consist of an array of 4x4 receivers performing digital beamforming and polarization synthesis both for PAU-RAD and PAU-GNSS/R. A concept demonstrator of the PAU instrument with only one receiver has been implemented (PAU-One Receiver or PAU-OR). PAU-OR has been used to test and tune the calibration algorithms that will be applied to PAU. This work describes in detail PAU-OR’s radiometer calibration algorithms and their performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-64aeb68e70a045979f940f5aae7a8b6a2022-12-22T02:57:19ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202008-07-018743924412PAU/RAD: Design and Preliminary Calibration Results of a New L-Band Pseudo-Correlation Radiometer ConceptEnric ValenciaNereida Rodriguez-AlvarezJuan Fernando Marchan-HernandezIsaac Ramos-PerezAdriano CampsXavier Bosch-LluisThe Passive Advanced Unit (PAU) for ocean monitoring is a new type of instrument that combines in a single receiver and without time multiplexing, a polarimetric pseudo-correlation microwave radiometer at L-band (PAU-RAD) and a GPS reflectometer (PAU-GNSS/R). These instruments in conjunction with an infra-red radiometer (PAU-IR) will respectively provide the sea surface temperature and the sea state information needed to accurately retrieve the sea surface salinity from the radiometric measurements. PAU will consist of an array of 4x4 receivers performing digital beamforming and polarization synthesis both for PAU-RAD and PAU-GNSS/R. A concept demonstrator of the PAU instrument with only one receiver has been implemented (PAU-One Receiver or PAU-OR). PAU-OR has been used to test and tune the calibration algorithms that will be applied to PAU. This work describes in detail PAU-OR’s radiometer calibration algorithms and their performance.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/8/7/4392/radiometerreflectometerpseudo-correlationcalibrationfield-programmable gate array (FPGA). |
| spellingShingle | Enric Valencia Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez Isaac Ramos-Perez Adriano Camps Xavier Bosch-Lluis PAU/RAD: Design and Preliminary Calibration Results of a New L-Band Pseudo-Correlation Radiometer Concept Sensors radiometer reflectometer pseudo-correlation calibration field-programmable gate array (FPGA). |
| title | PAU/RAD: Design and Preliminary Calibration Results of a New L-Band Pseudo-Correlation Radiometer Concept |
| title_full | PAU/RAD: Design and Preliminary Calibration Results of a New L-Band Pseudo-Correlation Radiometer Concept |
| title_fullStr | PAU/RAD: Design and Preliminary Calibration Results of a New L-Band Pseudo-Correlation Radiometer Concept |
| title_full_unstemmed | PAU/RAD: Design and Preliminary Calibration Results of a New L-Band Pseudo-Correlation Radiometer Concept |
| title_short | PAU/RAD: Design and Preliminary Calibration Results of a New L-Band Pseudo-Correlation Radiometer Concept |
| title_sort | pau rad design and preliminary calibration results of a new l band pseudo correlation radiometer concept |
| topic | radiometer reflectometer pseudo-correlation calibration field-programmable gate array (FPGA). |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/8/7/4392/ |
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