SWOT Near Nadir Ka-band SAR Interferometry: SWOT Airborne Experiment Xiaoqing Wu, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA Scott Hensley, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA Ernesto Rodriguez, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA Delwyn Moller, Remote Sensing Solutions, Barnstable, USA Ronald Muellerschoen, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA Thierry Michel, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA
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SWOT
Near Nadir Ka-band SAR Interferometry:SWOT Airborne Experiment
Xiaoqing Wu, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA
Scott Hensley, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA
Ernesto Rodriguez, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA
Delwyn Moller, Remote Sensing Solutions, Barnstable, USA
Ronald Muellerschoen, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA
Thierry Michel, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA
IGARSS 2011 SWOT Session , July 27, 2011
SWOT
Background
• SWOT (Surface Water Ocean Topography) is a planned NASA and CNES joint mission for monitoring Earth’s surface water.
• The major instrument of SWOT is KaRIn (a single pass Ka-band Radar Interferometrer)
• To measure sea surface heights and terrestrial water heights with a total 120 km width swath from both left and right sides
• To cover +90 % of Earth’s surface
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KaRIn system and Ka-band airborne system
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System parameters KaRIn Airborne system
Platform height 970 km ~12 km
Carrier frequency 35.7 GHz 35.7 GHz
Signal bandwidth 200 MHz 80 MHz
Peak transmit power 1.5 kW 35 W
PRF (per channel and side) 4420 Hz ~800 Hz
Antenna boresight in elevation 2.7o 31o
Antenna azimuth beamwidth 0.12o 0.9o
Baseline length (physical) 10 m 25 cm
Baseline angle 0 45o
Roll angle to achieve near nadir geometry for airborne system NA 6o ~ 9o
Ground range swath (one side) 10 – 70 km 2 – 6 km
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Verification and validation through airborne experiments
• Characterize power return of water surface with near nadir geometry
• Test and Verify SWOT ground processing algorithms
• Evaluate and predict performances of KaRIn system
Need to overcome issues of airborne systems
• multi-path due to reflection from antenna fairings
• possible interferometric phase drift due to lack of calibration signals