Title

A Feasibility Study For A Wide-Swath, Airborne, Hurricane Imaging Microwave Radiometer For Operational Hurricane Measurements

Abstract

This paper presents a conceptual design of an airborne Hurricane Imaging (microwave) Radiometer (HIRad) instrument for use in operational hurricane surveillance. The basis of the HIRad design is the Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) that has successfully measured surface wind speed and rain rate in hurricanes from the NOAA Hurricane Research Division's P-3 aircraft. Unlike the SFMR that views only at nadir, the HIRad provides wide-swath measurements between ± 45 degrees in incidence angle with a spot-beam spatial resolution of approximately 1-3 km. The system operates at four equally spaced frequency channels that cover a range between 4 GHz and 7 GHz.

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Publication Title

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volume

2

Number of Pages

786-789

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

0036030386 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0036030386

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