Title :
GeoSTAR-II: A prototype water vapor imager/sounder for the PATH mission
Author :
Gaier, Todd ; Lambrigtsen, Bjorn ; Kangaslahti, Pekka ; Lim, Boon ; Tanner, Alan ; Harding, Dennis ; Owen, Heather ; Soria, Mary ; O´Dwyer, Ian ; Ruf, Christopher ; Miller, Ryan ; Block, Bruce ; Flynn, Michael ; Whitaker, Sterling
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
We describe the development and progress of the GeoSTAR-II risk reduction activity for the NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey PATH Mission. The activity directly addresses areas of technical risk including the system design, low noise receiver production, sub-array development, signal distribution and digital signal processing.
Keywords :
atmospheric humidity; atmospheric techniques; geophysical signal processing; GeoSTAR-II risk reduction activity; NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey; PATH mission; digital signal processing; low noise receiver production; prototype water vapor imager/sounder; signal distribution; sub-array development; technical risk; Arrays; Correlators; Instruments; NASA; Noise; Receivers; Sensitivity; MMIC receivers; Synthetic Aperture Radiometry; digital correlators;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1003-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050009
