Calibration error of L-band sky-looking ground-based radiometers

Details Calibration error of L-band sky-looking ground-based radiometers Calibration error of L-band sky-looking ground-based radiometers

Feb 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002rasc...37a..11d&link_type=abstract

Radio Science, Volume 37, Issue 1, pp. 11-1, CiteID 1011, DOI 10.1029/2001RS002490

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Exploration Geophysics: Remote Sensing, Exploration Geophysics: Instruments And Techniques, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Radio Emissions

Scientific paper

A method is presented for estimating the calibration error affecting L-band ground-based radiometers, using the sky as a cold source. In a first step, the optimum conditions to perform this calibration are limited by removing sky areas where large radiation contributors (Sun and Moon) are present. In the region thus selected, an accurate computation of the brightness temperature measured by the antenna is performed using available sky background temperature survey charts (radio continuum and hydrogen HI line) and integrating the sky temperature over the directional gain pattern of a representative radiometer L-band antenna. Contributions from rear lobe are not considered. After adding the atmospheric contribution, maps of the noise temperature and its error are produced for the region of interest. The best calibration orientation for a sky-looking radiometer at medium northern latitude would be 0° in azimuth (northward) and an elevation equal to the radiometer's latitude. It is found that the computed total sky noise contribution is 6.6 K, with 24 hour variations of +/-0.2 K and a maximum bias of +/-0.6 K. The results are valid for the whole year, assuming low to moderate solar activity and no rain.

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