An Enhanced Resolution Brightness Temperature Product for Future Conical Scanning Microwave Radiometers

An enhanced spatial resolution brightness temperature product is proposed for future conical scan microwave radiometers. The technique developed Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) measurements that are simulated using the CIMR antenna pattern at L-band and measurement geometry in Phase A study led by Airbus. inverse reconstruction method proposed. Reconstructions obtained two configurations, namely, collected forward (FWD) scans only, combining backward (FWD+BWD) scans. Two grids adopted, $3 \mathrm {\,\,km} \times 3 {\,\,km}$ notation="LaTeX">$36 36 . Simulation results, referred to synthetic realistic reference fields, demonstrate soundness of scheme provides fields reconstructed a up ~1.9 times finer than measured field when FWD+BWD combination.