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ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2024, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 387-396

New possibilities of estimating the upper cloud boundary height on the basis of synchronous observations from Arktika-M highly elliptical orbit satellites and Himawari geostationary satellites

A.A. Bril 1 , A.I. Andreev 2 , M.A. Burtsev 1 , E.E. Volkova 1 , E.A. Loupian 1 , E.I. Kholodov 2 
1 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
2 Far Eastern Center of SRC "Planeta", Khabarovsk, Russia
Accepted: 29.10.2024
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2024-21-5-387-396
Commissioning in 2021 of the highly elliptical orbit Arktika-M satellite system opened up new opportunities to observe cloud cover in northern latitudes with high frequency (every 15 minutes). This potentially provides synchronous observations of cloud cover by both geostationary and highly elliptical orbit satellites, i.e., another source of information for using direct methods to determine cloud cover heights has become available. The paper presents the first results of work on the development of a method for automated regular (at least once every 30 minutes) reconstruction of the upper cloud boundary height fields based on data from Arktika-M and geostationary Himawari-8/9 satellites. Problems arising in this process are discussed and first results of the accuracy assessment of the developed method are presented. It is shown that even the current quality of data provided by the Arktika-M system makes it possible to obtain estimates of cloud cover heights comparable to those obtained from satellite data by other methods. We also discuss the possibility of implementing the technology of automated regular (at least once every 30 minutes) reconstruction of cloud top height fields from geostationary and highly elliptical orbit satellite data.
Keywords: stereopair, upper cloud boundary height, Arktika-M, Himawari
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