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

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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. 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). 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.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956199
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2022-59
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.956199
Provenance
Creator Andrews, Mark; Brogioni, Marco ORCID logo; Johnson, Joel
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University https://doi.org/10.13039/100006928 Crossref Funder ID 80NSSC18K0550 https://research.byrd.osu.edu/rsl/UWBRAD/index.htm ; Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University https://doi.org/10.13039/100006928 Crossref Funder ID NNX14AE68G https://research.byrd.osu.edu/rsl/UWBRAD/index.htm ; Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University https://doi.org/10.13039/100006928 Crossref Funder ID NNX14AH91G https://research.byrd.osu.edu/rsl/UWBRAD/index.htm ; Ministry of Education, Universities and Research https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003407 Crossref Funder ID 2016/AZ3.02 Ice Sheet and Sea Ice Airborne Microwave eXperiment (ISSIUMAX)
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 279263 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (157.724W, -75.475S, 166.441E, -73.734N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-11-24T21:06:09Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-11-25T06:20:07Z