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A technique is presented for constructing a mathematical model of a Multi-Frequency Microwave Radiometer System. The technique combines the different responses of microwave radiometers with models of the sea surface, the effects of the Earth's atmosphere and of the sky emission. A linear perturbation method and a more accurate non-linear method are outlined for processing of data simultaneously collected by the radiometers. The mathematical model of the Radiometer System combined with the linear data-processing method is useful for predicting in-flight sensor performance. Based on a chosen performance function, an evaluation of a spaceborne Multi-Frequency Microwave Radiometer System is given.
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Thrane, L. Evaluation of Multi-Frequency-Microwave-Radiometer-System performance for oceanography. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 13, 373–392 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00913883
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