Recent Advances in SMAP RFI Processing

Soldo, Y.; Le Vine, D. M.; Bringer, A.; Mohammed, P. N.; de Matthaeis, P.; Piepmeier, J. R.; Johnson, J. T.

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Recent Advances in SMAP RFI Processing

Soldo, Y.·Le Vine, D. M.·Bringer, A.·Mohammed, P. N.·de Matthaeis, P.·Piepmeier, J. R.·Johnson, J. T.

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The measurements made by the Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) mission are affected by the presence of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) in the protected 1400-1427 MHz band. In SMAP data processing, the main protection against RFI is a sophisticated RFI detection algorithm which flags sub-samples in time and frequency that are contaminated by RFI and removes them before estimating the brightness temperature. This contribution presents two additional approaches that have been developed to address the RFI concern in SMAP. The first consists in locating sources of RFI; once located, it becomes possible to report RFI sources to spectrum management authorities, which can lead to less RFI being experienced by SMAP in the future. The second is a new RFI detection method that is based on detecting outliers in the spatial distribution of measured antenna temperatures.

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Soldo, Y., Le Vine, D. M., Bringer, A., Mohammed, P. N., de Matthaeis, P., Piepmeier, J. R., Johnson, J. T.. 2018-07-22. Recent Advances in SMAP RFI Processing. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20180004894

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