Design and development status of the EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar

Author

Nakatsuka, Hirotaka ; Kimura, Toshiyoshi ; Seki, Yoshishiro ; Kadosaki, Gaku ; Iide, Yoshiya ; Okada, Kazuyuki ; Yamaguchi, Jun ; Takahashi, Nobuhiro ; Ohno, Yuich ; Horie, Hiroaki ; Sato, Kenji

Author_Institution

Japan Aerosp. Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

2415

Lastpage

2418

Abstract

The Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) for the EarthCARE mission has been jointly developed by JAXA and NICT in Japan. The CPR is a millimeter-wave radar which has a large deployable antenna and its unique feature is vertical Doppler velocity measurement capability. The Engineering Model development and testing are now ongoing and the predicted performance will be verified after a series of tests. This paper will present the latest design and development status of the EarthCARE CPR.

Keywords

Doppler effect; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; clouds; meteorological radar; radar antennas; remote sensing by radar; EarthCARE cloud profiling radar; JAXA; NICT; antenna; engineering model development; millimeter wave radar; vertical Doppler velocity measurement capability; Clouds; Doppler effect; Doppler radar; Radar antennas; Satellites; Spaceborne radar; CPR; Doppler; EarthCARE; cloud; radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351004

Filename

6351004