The RM-2 satelliteborne three-channel microwave radiometer
Abstract
RM-2 is designed to measure the thermal emission of the earth atmosphere and surface at wavelengths of 0.8, 1.35, and 1.55 cm. The radiometer includes three independent modulation detectors connected to an antenna system with a common reflector and combined into a unified system by a common control and data acquisition system. The absolute accuracy of the measurements is enhanced by an autonomous calibration system using solid-state noise generators operating in the pulsed mode.
- Publication:
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IN: Remote sensing of the earth from the Meteor-Priroda satellite: The Bulgaria-1300-II Soviet-Bulgarian experiment (A87-17651 05-43). Leningrad
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985rsem.rept...28B
- Keywords:
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- Meteorological Parameters;
- Microwave Radiometers;
- Remote Sensors;
- Satellite-Borne Instruments;
- Accuracy;
- Atmospheric Radiation;
- Calibrating;
- Noise Generators;
- Soviet Spacecraft;
- Spacecraft Instrumentation