This paper presents a highly sensitive differential soil moisture sensor (DSMS) using microstrip line loaded with triangular two-turn resonator (T2-SR) and complementary of the rectangular spiral (CR2-SR), simultaneously. Volumetric Water Content (VWC) or permittivity sensing is conducted by loading T2-SR side dielectric samples. Two transmission notches are observed for identical loads relatin...

In this work, a compact, inexpensive, and efficient dual band microwave sensor is proposed. The based on two Complementary Symmetric Split-Ring Resonators (CSSRRs) possesses high $Q$ factor wide sensing range. These CSSRRs are coupled...

Passive microwave satellite brightness temperatures (TB) that were observed by the F13 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) and the subsequent F17 Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) were inter-calibrated using empirical relationship models during their overlap period. Snow depth (SD) on the Arctic first-year sea ice was further retrieved. The SDs derived from F17 TB and F13C TB ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center has served as the archive of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) data from the F-8, F-10, F-11, F-13, F-14, and F-15 platforms covering the period from July 1987 to the present. Passive microwave satellite measurements from SSM/I have been used to generate climate p...

Based on the optimal interpolation (OI) algorithm, a daily fusion product of high-resolution global ocean columnar atmospheric water vapor with resolution 0.25° was generated in this study from multisource remote sensing observations. The covers period 2003 to 2018, and data represent microwave radiometer observations, including those Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS), WindSat, Ad...

Microwave brightness temperatures are obtained from the SeaWinds scatterometer on the QuikSCAT satellite. These QuikSCAT Radiometer (QRad) measurements are used to infer instantaneous oceanic rain rates using a statistical retrieval algorithm that is based upon collocated TMI measurements. QRad instantaneous rain rate measurements have been binned in 0.5 hour local time windows onto a 0.5° x 0....