Development of High Temperature Noise Source (HTS) for Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2)

Author

Ishikawa, Takaaki ; Yokobori, Shinichi ; Ito, Takeshi ; Noguchi, Tatsuhiro ; Ito, Norimasa ; Kasahara, Marehito

Author_Institution

Kamakura Works, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

3851

Lastpage

3854

Abstract

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) was developed and provided to Global Change Observation Mission satellite (GCOM-W1) led by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). AMSR2 observes the global water and energy cycling, such as water vapor, precipitation, sea surface temperature, soil moisture, etc. AMSR2 mounted on GCOM-W1 will be launched by H-IIA Rocket in winter period of FY2011. AMSR2 is now under the spacecraft protoflight test. This paper describes the development and evaluation result of High Temperature Noise Source (HTS), a calibration warm load of AMSR2.

Keywords

artificial satellites; calibration; microwave measurement; radiometers; space vehicles; AMSR2; GCOM-W1; HTS; JAXA; Japan aerospace exploration agency; advanced microwave scanning radiometer 2; calibration warm load; global change observation mission satellite; high temperature noise source; spacecraft protoflight test; Electromagnetic heating; Feeds; High temperature superconductors; Microwave radiometry; Microwave theory and techniques; Temperature distribution; Thermal conductivity; Calibrator; Climate; GCOM; Microwave radiometry; Water;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050071

Filename

6050071