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Sensors 2011, 11, 6066-6087; doi:10.3390/s110606066 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article A General Analysis of the Impact of Digitization in Microwave Correlation Radiometers Xavier Bosch-Lluis *, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Adriano Camps, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Enric Valencia and Hyuk Park Remote Sensing Lab, Signal Theory and Communications Department, Building D3, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and IEEC CRAE/UPC, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain; E-Mails: isaacramos@ (I.R.-P.); camps@ (A.C.); nereida@ (N.R.-A.); valencia@ (E.V.); park.hyuk@ (H.P.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: xavier.bosch@; Tel.: +34-934-017-362. Received: 18 April 2011; in revised form: 24 May 2011 / Accepted: 2 June 2011 / Published: 3 June 2011 Abstract: This study provides a general framework to analyze the effects on correlation radiometers of a generic quantization scheme and sampling process. It reviews, unifies and expands several previous works that focused on these effects separately. In addition, it provides a general theoretical background that allows analyzing any digitization scheme including any number of quantization levels, irregular quantization steps, gain compression, clipping, jitter and skew effects of the sampling period. Keywords: microwave; correlation; radiometers; digital; sampling; quantization 1. Introduction Microwave radiometry is today a mature technology that was first used in radio-astronomy