An Illustration of FY-3E GNOS-R for Global Soil Moisture Monitoring.

An effective soil moisture retrieval method for FY-3E (Fengyun-3E) GNOS-R (GNSS occultation sounder II-reflectometry) is developed in this paper. Here, the LAGRS model, which is totally oriented for GNOS-R, is employed to estimate vegetation and surface roughness effects on surface reflectivity. Since the LAGRS (land surface GNSS reflection simulator) model is a space-borne GNSS-R (GNSS reflectometry) simulator based on the microwave radiative transfer equation model, the method presented in this paper takes more consideration on the physical scattering properties for retrieval.

HIRAS noise performance improvement based on principal component analysis.

Mirror jitters around a bias tilt angle can make noise performance degradation for a space-borne Michelson interferometer. A numerical model simulates the Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (HIRAS) spectra affected by the mirror jitters. According to the simulation, mirror jitters mainly generate spectrally correlated noise, which can be estimated by subtracting the random noise component from the total noise.