A clock scanning synthetic aperture radiometer as a potential payload of SPORT

Author

Cheng Zhang ; Hao Liu ; Ji Wu ; Weiying Sun ; Lijie Niu ; Jingye Yan

Author_Institution

CAS Key Lab. of Microwave Remote Sensing, Nat. Space Sci. Center, Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

13-18 July 2014

Firstpage

1929

Lastpage

1932

Abstract

The recent progress of the potential main payload of the Solar Polar ORbit Telescope (SPORT) mission, a space weather mission proposed by the National Space Science Center, is introduced in this paper. The main payload of SPORT is essentially an interferometric radiometer using synthetic aperture technique, and the time sharing clock rotation to implement the visibility sampling. The progress on system design, including frequency selection, payload configuration, rotation scan schemes and image retrieval are presented in this paper.

Keywords

image retrieval; radiometers; radiotelescopes; solar coronal mass ejections; National Space Science Center; SPORT payload; clock scanning synthetic aperture radiometer; coronal mass ejections; frequency selection; image retrieval; interferometric radiometer; payload configuration; rotation scan schemes; solar polar orbit telescope mission; space weather mission; synthetic aperture technique; system design; time sharing clock rotation; Apertures; Brightness temperature; Clocks; Interpolation; Orbits; Space vehicles; Solar polar orbit; clock scan; radiometer; synthetic aperture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946836

Filename

6946836