Linwood Jones

TL;DR: The first Earth-orbiting satellite to carry four complementary microwave experiments, the Radar Altimeter (ALT) to measure ocean surface topography by measuring spacecraft altitude above the ocean surface; the Seasat-A Satellite Scatterometer (SASS), to measure wind speed and direction over the ocean; the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer(SMMR) to Measure surface wind speed, ocean surface temperature, atmospheric water vapor content, rain rate, and ice coverage; and the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to image the ocean surfaces, polar ice

TL;DR: The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRad) is a new airborne sensor that is intended to produce wide-swath images of ocean surface wind speed and near surface rain rate in hurricanes conditions and represents a major technological challenge for the design because it is a Fourier synthesis imager.

TL;DR: A major component of the TRMM version 8 reprocessing is the improvement of geolocation as mentioned in this paper, which is a major part of the final phase of the mission closeout.

TL;DR: This article defines the Consensus Calibration 1.1 which is applied to the TRMM Microwave Imager, which serves as a transfer standard to other satellite radiometers.

TL;DR: Two methods of performing radiometric inter-comparison of near-simultaneous collocated oceanic measurements from pairs of satellites are described and used to compare external measurements between the TRMM Microwave Imager, WindSat, and SSMI.