Influence of aircraft attitude on fully polarized radiometer and its correction.

As an important load of airborne/spaceborne passive microwave remote sensing, fully polarized microwave radiometer is widely used to the measurement of wind vector and salinity on sea surface. The retrieval of ocean surface parameters requires high accuracy data of radiometer. In recent years, the data correction scheme of fully polarized radiometer is common, but the attitude problem of radiometer is not paid enough attention. This paper establishes a full link transfer model for a fully polarized microwave radiometer, and focus on analysing the impact of aircraft attitude on various parameters. This paper aims to draw researchers' attention to attitude control of fully polarized microwave radiometer. Through the model established in this paper, the influence of attitude on fully polarized microwave radiometers is clarified and corrected, then rapidly correction can be achieved. Through simulation model, the impact of different attitudes on data can be calculated in advance before flight tests, and can provide guidance for attitude control. Using the corrected data for wind vector analysis, the deviation of wind direction is within 10°, which also verifies the accuracy of the model in this paper. The model proposed in this paper can achieve fast and accurate correction of radiometer parameters and the error prediction caused by attitude, which provides a strong guarantee for the inversion of sea surface parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]