MicroWave Imager for MetOp-SG: development status and Instrument verification
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lupi, Tito; Di Nicolantonio, Walter; Di Cintio, Andrea; Tominetti, Fabio; Peube, Laurence; Bredin, Carine; Malassingne, Christophe; Tabart, Christian; Matarazzo, Emma; Gatti, Nicola; Vetrano, Enrico; Drioli, Luca Salghetti; Colucci, Paolo
- Source
- 2020 16th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing for the Environment (MicroRad) Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing for the Environment (MicroRad), 2020 16th Specialist Meeting on. :1-4 Nov, 2020
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Geoscience
Signal Processing and Analysis
Temperature sensors
Water
Temperature distribution
Instruments
Microwave radiometry
Ocean temperature
Microwave imaging
MWI
Microwave
Imager
Conical Scanning Radiometer
Weather Satellites
- Language
MWI (Micro Wave Imager) is one of the sensors of MetOp Second Generation Sat-B devoted to observe clouds and precipitations, water vapor and temperature gross profiles.MWI will provide global microwave imaging data useful to retrieve information on precipitating and non-precipitating liquid and frozen hydrometeors and relevant surface characteristics (e.g. windspeed over ocean and sea-ice coverage). The present paper will give an overview of the instrument design and will report on the status of the development and verification.