Micro-Wave Radiation Imager-RM (MWRI-RM)

Description

Succeeding the channel settings of MWRI-I, Micro-Wave Radiation Imager -Rainfall Mission (MWRI-RM) has enhanced observation abilities with additional channels and improvements in calibration accuracy, observation sensitivity, positioning accuracy and operational lifetime.

Satellite FY-3G 
No. Channels 13
Dynamic range 3~340K
Main-beam efficiency ≥95%
Channel registration ≤2km (0.5km expected)
Swath width 800km
Scan cycle three modes: 1.7s, 1.8s, 2.0s
Scan error 1ms (continuous in 30 minutes)

Characteristics

Center frequency (GHz) Polarization Bandwidth (MHz) Frequency stability (MHz) Sensitivity (K) Minimum/expected accuracy (K)
10.65 V,H 180 10 0.5 0.8 / 0.8
18.7 V,H 200 10 0.5 0.8 / 0.8
23.8 V,H 400 15 0.5 0.8 / 0.8
36.5 V,H 900 20 0.5 0.8 / 0.8
50.30 V,H 400 25 0.5 0.8 / 0.8
52.61 V,H 400 25 0.5 0.8 / 0.8
53.24 V,H 400 25 0.5 0.8 / 0.8
53.75 V,H 400 25 0.5 0.8 / 0.8
89.0 V,H 3000 25 0.5 0.9 / 0.8
118.7503±3.2 V 2×500 25 0.8 1.2 / 0.8
118.7503±2.1 V 2×400 25 0.8 1.2 / 0.8
118.7503±1.4 V 2×400 25 0.8 1.2 / 0.8
118.7503±1.2 V 2×400 25 0.8 1.2 / 0.8
165.5±0.75 V 2×1350 30 0.8 1.2 / 0.8
183.31±2.0 V 2×1500 30 0.8 1.2 / 0.8
183.31±3.4 V 2×1500 30 0.8 1.2 / 0.8
183.31±7 V 2×2000 30 0.8 1.2 / 0.8

Data and Products

Satellite Instrument Datasets
FY-3G MWRI-RM L1 data

Calibration and Validation

MWRI-RM calibration and validation

MWRI-RM

MWRI-RM