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===== Introduction ===== | ===== Introduction ===== | ||
- | Microwave radiometers are very sensitive receivers usually equipped with multiple receiving channels in order to derive the characteristic emission spectrum of the atmosphere. Microwave radiometers are utilized in a variety of environmental and engineering applications, | + | Microwave radiometers are very sensitive receivers |
- | The atmosphere in the [[https:// | + | Using the [[https:// |
For weather and climate monitoring, microwave radiometers are operated from space [1] [2] as well as from the ground [3]. As [[https:// | For weather and climate monitoring, microwave radiometers are operated from space [1] [2] as well as from the ground [3]. As [[https:// | ||
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===== History of microwave radiometer measurements ===== | ===== History of microwave radiometer measurements ===== | ||
+ | First developments of microwave radiometer were dedicated to the measurement of radiation of extraterrestrial origin in the 1930s and 1940s [1]. The first operational microwave radiometer was designed by [[https:// | ||
- | The first operational microwave radiometer was designed by [[https:// | + | Soon after satellites were first used for observing the atmosphere, MW radiometers became part of their instrumentation. In 1962 the [[https:// |
- | Soon after satellites were first used for observing | + | Here we could keep the graphic from the original article |
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===== Principle of operation ===== | ===== Principle of operation ===== | ||
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===== References ===== | ===== References ===== | ||
+ | [1] Microwave Remote Sensing—Active and Passive”. By F. T. Ulaby. R. K. Moore and A. K. Fung. (Reading, Massachusetts: | ||
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+ | [2] Thermal Microwave Radiation: Applications for Remote Sensing, C. Matzler, 2006, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, London, Chapter 1. | ||
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+ | [3] http:// | ||
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+ | [4] Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of the Earth, Physical Foundations, | ||
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- | - Thermal Microwave Radiation: Applications for Remote Sensing, C. Matzler, 2006, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, London, Chapter 1. | ||
- | - Eugene A. Sharkov, “Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of the Earth”, Physical Foundations, | ||
- Cimini et al., 2009 | - Cimini et al., 2009 | ||
- Klein and Gasiewski, 2000 | - Klein and Gasiewski, 2000 |
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