Hardware design overview of a satellite scatterometer

Author

Crowley, Richard D.

Author_Institution

Raytheon E-Syst. St. Petersburg, FL, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

24-26 Apr 1998

Firstpage

244

Lastpage

247

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the hardware design of the scatterometer electronics subsystem (SES) which is the heart of the SeaWinds payload developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to fly on the Japanese ADEOS-II satellite. The SES provides the radar electronics function. There is also a scatterometer antenna subsystem (SAS) and a command and data subsystem (CDS) that comprises the entire SeaWinds payload. This hardware has been under development since early 1995 and has undergone a major design upgrade to provide a higher spatial resolution wind measurement. The hardware is currently at JPL undergoing system-level integration

Keywords

atmospheric boundary layer; atmospheric measuring apparatus; backscatter; electromagnetic wave scattering; ocean waves; radar antennas; remote sensing by radar; satellite antennas; spaceborne radar; wind; ADEOS-II satellite; JPL; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; SeaWinds payload; backscatter; command and data subsystem; hardware design; radar; radar electronics; satellite scatterometer; scatterometer antenna subsystem; scatterometer electronics subsystem; spatial resolution; system-level integration; wind measurement; Hardware; Heart; Laboratories; Payloads; Propulsion; Radar antennas; Radar measurements; Satellites; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture sonar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon '98. Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4391-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.1998.673340

Filename

673340