IMPROVEMENT OF CYGNSS LEVEL 1 CALIBRATION USING MODELING AND MEASUREMENTS OF OCEAN SURFACE MEAN SQUARE SLOPE

被引:4
作者
Wang, Tianlin [1 ]
Zavorotny, Valery U. [2 ]
Johnson, Joel [3 ]
Yi, Yuchan [3 ]
Ruf, Christopher [1 ]
Gleason, Scott [4 ]
McKaguel, Darren [1 ]
Hwang, Paul [5 ]
Rogers, Erick [6 ]
Chen, Shuyi [7 ]
Pan, Yulin [1 ]
Bakker, Thomas [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[2] Univ Colorado, Cooperat Inst Res Environm Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[3] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[4] Univ Corp Atmospher Res, Boulder, CO USA
[5] Naval Res Lab, Washington, DC 20375 USA
[6] Naval Res Lab, Stennis Space Ctr, MS USA
[7] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
来源
IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM | 2020年
关键词
Calibration; CYGNSS; mean square slope (mss); validation; WaveWatch III; wind speed; SEA;
D O I
10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323262
中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要
The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) measures GPS signals specularly reflected from Earth's surface to remotely sense ocean surface roughness and wind speed. The mean square slope (mss) is a key physical parameter that relates the ocean surface properties (wave spectra) with the CYGNSS measurement of the normalized bistatic radar cross section (NBRCS). An approach to model the mss for validation with CYGNSS mss data was developed by adding the contribution of a high frequency tail to the IFREMER WAVEWATCH III (WW3) mss. It is demonstrated that the ratio of CYGNSS mss and the modified WW3 mss can be used to diagnose potential calibration errors that exist in the Level 1 calibration algorithm. This approach can help to improve CYGNSS data quality, including the Level 1 NBRCS and Level 2 ocean surface wind speed and roughness.
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页码:5909 / 5912
页数:4
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