UWBRAD 500-2000 MHz brightness temperature measurements during the ISSIUMAX campaign in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica

The dataset contains 500-2000 MHz brightness temperature measurements gathered by the Ultra-Wideband Software Defined Microwave Radiometer (UWBRAD) during the Ice Sheet and Sea Ice Airborne Microwave eXperiment (ISSIUMAX) in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica. The published dataset is in ascii format and consists of geolocated nadiral brightness temperature measurements collected over 12 sub-bands whose central frequencies are 560, 660, 820, 900, 1180, 1240, 1370, 1500, 1630, 1740, 1860, and 1950 MHz. Only measurements with a viewing angle within 5 deg with respect to nadir are reported.

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Date ( Creation )
2023-03-15
Identifier
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.956199
Purpose
UWBRAD was operated from a DHC-6 Twin Otter during the XXXVIII Italian Antarctic Expedition. The campaign collected the first ultrawideband brightness temperature measurements in Antarctica over different targets including sea ice, ice sheets, glaciers, ice shelves, and land. The dataset was collected on 24-25 November 2018 in the coastal region surrounding Mario Zucchelli Station (-74.694807°, 164.113268°). The UWBRAD microwave radiometer measures nadiral circularly polarized brightness temperatures over the entire 500–2000 MHz range using multiple frequency channels. Since this frequency range is not a protected portion of the spectrum, the measurements can be affected by anthropogenic RFI. To address this issue, UWBRAD includes RFI detection and filtering methods to filter out artificial signals received by the radiometer. A full description of the instrument can be found in Andrews et al, 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3090945).
Status
Completed
Principal investigator
  CNR-IFAC - Marco Brogioni
Point of contact
  Ohio State University - Mark Andrews
Point of contact
  Ohio State University - Joel Johnson
Point of contact
  CNR-IFAC - Marco Brogioni
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica ( Theme )
  • Terra Nova Bay
  • Northern Foothills
  • Priestley Glacier
  • David Glacier
  • Reeves Glacier
  • Nansen Ice Sheet
  • Gerlache Inlet
  • Wood Bay
GCMD - Science Keywords ( Theme )
  • GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS
  • SEA ICE
  • SNOW/ICE
GCMD - Providers ( Theme )
  • IT/PNRA
Keywords
Use limitation
CC-BY 4.0
Unique resource identifier
2016/AZ3.02
Association Type
dependency
Initiative Type
Project
Unique resource identifier
33
Association Type
dependency
Initiative Type
Campaign
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Denominator
1
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Geoscientific information
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Begin date
2018-11-24
End date
2018-11-25 Now
Unique resource identifier
WGS84
Distribution format
  • FORMATO_DISTRIBUZIONE_DATI (ASCII, CSV, NetCDF...) ( 1 )

OnLine resource
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.956199 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Pass
Yes
Statement
Data have been internally and absolute calibrated, then filtered for ensuring the cancellation of RFI and spurious measurements.
File identifier
f9822a10-c27a-4bbb-829b-625084d49e5c XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-03-20T10:17:51
Metadata standard name
ISO 19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  CNR-IFAC - Marco Brogioni
 
 

Overviews

overview

Spatial extent

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Keywords

GCMD - Providers
IT/PNRA
GCMD - Science Keywords
GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS SEA ICE SNOW/ICE
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica
David Glacier Gerlache Inlet Nansen Ice Sheet Northern Foothills Priestley Glacier Reeves Glacier Terra Nova Bay Wood Bay

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