SMOS: The challenging sea surface salinity measurement from space

J Font, A Camps, A Borges… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity, European Space Agency, is the first satellite mission
addressing the challenge of measuring sea surface salinity from space. It uses an L-band …

Imaging analysis and first results of the geostationary interferometric microwave sounder demonstrator

C Zhang, H Liu, J Wu, S Zhang, J Yan… - … on Geoscience and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Geostationary Interferometric Microwave Sounder (GIMS) is a new concept of
atmospheric microwave sounder for China's future geostationary Earth orbit meteorological …

A resolving matrix approach for synthetic aperture imaging radiometers

E Anterrieu - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture imaging radiometers (SAIRs) are potential powerful instruments for high-
resolution observation of planetary surfaces at low microwave frequencies. This paper deals …

MIRAS calibration and performance: Results from the SMOS in-orbit commissioning phase

I Corbella, F Torres, N Duffo… - … on Geoscience and …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
After the successful launching of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite in November
2009, continuous streams of data started to be regularly downloaded and made available to …

Ship detection by an airborne passive interferometric microwave sensor (PIMS)

H Lu, Y Li, H Li, R Lv, L Lang, Q Li… - … on Geoscience and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ship detection is important for a wide range of applications. In this article, an airborne
passive interferometric microwave sensor (PIMS) is proposed as a powerful complementary …

Performance simulation of the payload IMR and MICAP onboard the Chinese ocean salinity satellite

Y Li, X Yin, W Zhou, M Lin, H Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Chinese Ocean Salinity Satellite is dedicated to global sea surface salinity (SSS)
mapping with two payloads onboard, which are the interferometric microwave radiometer …

A matrix completion based method for RFI source localization in microwave interferometric radiometry

D Zhu, X Peng, G Li - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission led by the European Space Agency
(ESA) is aimed to globally monitor the Earth surface moisture and ocean salinity. As the …

An improved ship detection algorithm for an airborne passive interferometric microwave sensor (PIMS) based on ship wakes

H Lu, Y Li, L Lang, L Wu, L Xu, S Yan… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Airborne passive interferometric microwave sensors (PIMSs) were proposed as a powerful
complementary tool for ship detection, especially in low visibility and high sea clutter …

Angular superresolution for scanning radar with improved regularized iterative adaptive approach

Y Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Huang, W Li… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, an improved regularized iterative adaptive approach (IAA) is proposed for
scanning radar angular superresolution. Because the IAA requires matrix inversion, the …

BlockMFRAs: Block-Wise Multiple-Fold Redundancy Arrays for Joint Optimization of Radiometric Sensitivity and Angular Resolution in Interferometric Radiometers

D Zhu, J Tao, J Su, F Hu - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radiometric sensitivity and angular resolution are two of the most important performances
for microwave and millimeter-wave interferometric radiometers. These two performance …