HURRICANE AND SEVERE STORM SENTINEL (HS3) HURRICANE IMAGING RADIOMETER (HIRAD) V1

The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) was collected by the Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD), which was a multi-band passive microwave radiometer operating between 4-6.6 GHz. It used a novel interferometric aperture synthesis technique to produce high resolution wide swath observations without any mechanical scanning of the antenna. The instrument was designed to measure ocean surface wind speed in tropical storms and hurricanes. Developed in collaboration between scientists and engineers at National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA MSFC), the University of Central Florida, and the University of Michigan, the instrument was first flown on a NASA high altitude aircraft in the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Experiment in 2010 and was then flown for the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) in 2012-2014.

由飓风成像辐射计（Hurricane Imaging Radiometer，HIRAD）收集的飓风与严重风暴哨兵（Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel，HS3）成像辐射计（HIRAD）是一款在4-6.6 GHz频段工作的多频带被动微波辐射计。该仪器采用了一种创新的干涉仪孔径综合技术，能够在无需天线机械扫描的情况下，生成高分辨率宽条带观测数据。其设计旨在测量热带风暴和飓风中的海洋表面风速。该仪器由美国国家航空航天局马歇尔太空飞行中心（National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center，NASA MSFC）、中央佛罗里达大学和密歇根大学的研究人员和工程师共同研发。该仪器首次于2010年搭载于NASA的高空飞机，在生成与快速增强过程（Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes，GRIP）实验中进行飞行，随后在2012-2014年期间参与了飓风与严重风暴哨兵（HS3）项目。