An Improved Rock Method for the Chang’E-2 Microwave Radiometer Datasets (opens in new tab)

Chang’E (CE) microwave radiometer (MRM) measurements provide a unique opportunity to detect the heat flow (temperature gradients) across the global Moon. However, rocks influence the brightness temperature (TB) and consequently impact the precision of the inferred temperature gradients derived from the antenna temperature (TA) sensed by the CE MRM. Hence, we propose an improved rock method to simulate the TA using assumed antenna patterns corresponding to the main beamwidth and efficiency as ...