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Preparing for JPSS-1/ATMS Direct Readout Readiness
Acknowledgments: This work was performed under contract NAS5-01089, sponsored by NASA
Nikisa S. George & Kent AndersonNorthrop Grumman Electronic Systems, Azusa CA, 91702, U.S.A.
Overview• The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS),
manufactured by Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems (NGES) in Azusa CA, was launched on October 28, 2011 aboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) spacecraft
• ATMS works in conjunction with the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) to measure atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles and is the follow-on to the Advanced Microwave Sounding Units -A and -B
• The next ATMS, currently in system-level testing, will be on the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1), planned for launch in 2017
• This study reviews:
• Our performance assessments from Cal-Val activities
• Scan-dependent radiometric biases and “striping”
• Preliminary algorithm options that may be useful for direct readout users
Summary of NPP On-orbit Assessments• Radiometric Sensitivity: Channels 1-16 reduced by 1/3, for direct comparison to AMSU-A (Figure 2a)
• Radiometric Accuracy: Analytic model, with parameter updates based on On-orbit Data (Figure 2b)
Figure 1. a) ATMS Channelization Compared to AMSU, b) ATMS Proto-flight Model, and c)Ch 18 TB of Hurricane Isaac
Figure 3. Channel 1 and channel 17 scan-dependent radiometric biases, observed during pitch-maneuver
Figure 4. ATMS Striping example
Conclusions• Stability of critical temperature-dependent parameters is
significantly better than predicted
• Sensitivity (NEDT) is consistent with ground tests, and is an improvement over AMSU when averaged for equivalent footprint sizes
•Other phenomena, such as scan-dependent biases and striping, are being characterized and modeledBasis for deriving related requirements for future unitsAlgorithm enhancements are under development to mitigate their effects
ATMS Description• Total-power radiometer, two-point external calibration• Continuous cross-track scanning• Functional-equivalent follow-on to AMSU-A and MHS, with
improved sampling and coverage
Figure 2. a) NEDT compared to requirements and AMSU-A / MHS and b) Radiometric Accuracy, with & without quadratic corrections
“Striping” Noise• “Striping” is due to scan-to-scan (down-track) variations
that are greater than sample-to-sample variations within a scan (cross-track) (see Figure 4)
No requirement has yet been established, but it is now recognized that such a requirement needs to be developed
Phenomenon is due to low-frequency gain fluctuations, predominantly in front-end LNAs
•Associated issue of multi-channel correlation of gain fluctuations is also under investigation
ATMS Chan
AMSU-A,B Chan
Center Freq (GHz)Pre-Detection
Bandwidth (MHz)
Pol
1 1 23.8 270 QV
2 2 31.4 180 QV
3 3 50.3 180 QH
4 51.76 400 QH
5 4 52.8 400 QH
6 5 53.596±0.115 170 QH
7 6 54.4 400 QH
8 7 54.94 400 QH
9 8 55.5 330 QH
10 9 57.290344 155 QH
11 10 57.290344±0.217 78 QH
12 11 57.290344±0.3222±0.048 36 QH
13 12 57.290344±0.3222±0.022 16 QH
14 13 57.290344±0.3222±0.010 8 QH
15 14 57.290344±0.3222±0.0045 3 QH
16 15 88.2 2000 QV
17 17 165.5 1150 QH
18 20 183.31±7.0 2000 QH
19 183.31±4.5 2000 QH
20 19 183.31±3.0 1000 QH
21 183.31±1.8 1000 QH
22 18 183.31±1.0 500 QH
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• Scan-dependent Radiometric BiasPrimarily due to scanning reflector polarized emissivityMinor secondary effect, may be due to reflector spillover (TBD)Causes both a systematic angle-dependent error and an overall bias
(due to radiometric offset of cold-calibration measurement)
Potential Algorithm Options for JPSS• Corrections for the scan-dependent bias, based on modeled
effect of reflector emissivity
• Multi-channel processing to reduce correlated errors
• Corrections for polarization angle errors and cross-pol contamination
•More sophisticated techniques (TBD) to reduce striping
Feb 20, 2012 - ATMS Pitch Maneuver; Ch 3 in Kelvin
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