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Assessing Polarimetric Weather Radar Data Quality Under Cross-Polar Coupling and Sampling Limits

J. Heylen, T. Dash, G. Theis, R. van der Meer, Y. Aslan, A. Yarovoy

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Abstract

The impact of cross-polar coupling and a finite available number of echo samples on the data quality of polarimetric weather radar data is investigated. A system model and a two-step simulation approach are proposed to simulate realistic time series of the received weather radar signals. The proposed simulation methodology is applied to a rainfall scenario to illustrate the data quality of two widely used weather radar measurement schemes. Through simulation of the bounds within which 90% of the resulting estimates fall, it is demonstrated that the finite sample size introduces deviations that limit the data quality, even in designs with low cross-polar coupling.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2025 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2025
EditorsMarek Rupniewski, Shannon Blunt, Jacek Misiurewicz, Maria Sabrina Greco, Braham Himed
PublisherIEEE
Pages1484-1489
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)979-8-3315-4433-1
ISBN (Print)979-8-3315-4434-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Event2025 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf25) - Krakow, Poland
Duration: 4 Oct 202510 Oct 2025

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference
ISSN (Print)1097-5764
ISSN (Electronic)2375-5318

Conference

Conference2025 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf25)
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityKrakow
Period4/10/2510/10/25

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository as part of the Taverne amendment. More information about this copyright law amendment can be found at https://www.openaccess.nl. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

  • Data quality
  • polarimetry
  • polarimetric coupling
  • weather radar

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