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| Title: | Performance evaluation of the Geostationary Synthetic Thinned Array Radiometer (GeoSTAR) demonstrator instrument |
| Authors: | Tanner, Alan B.
Wilson, William J.
Lambrigsten, Bjorn H.
Dinardo, Steven J.
Brown, Shannon T.
Kangaslahti, Pekka P.
Gaier, Todd C.
Ruf, C. S.
Gross, S. M.
Lim, B. H.
Musko, S.
Rogacki, S. |
| Keywords: | remote sensing
radiometer
interferometer |
| Issue Date: | 28-Feb-2006 |
| Publisher: | Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006. |
| Citation: | 9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications, IEEE Transaction, Geoscience and Remote Sensing -Special Issue for MicroRad '06, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 28 - March 3, 2006. |
| Abstract: | The design, error budget, and preliminary test results of a 50-56 GHz synthetic aperture radiometer demonstration system are presented. The instrument consists of a fixed 24-element array of correlation interferometers, and is capable of producing calibrated images with 0.8 degree spatial resolution within a 17 degree wide field of view. This system has been built to demonstrate performance and a design which can be scaled to a much larger geostationary earth imager. As a baseline, such a system would consist of about 300 elements, and would be capable of providing contiguous, full hemispheric images of the earth with 1 Kelvin of radiometric precision and 50 km spatial resolution. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/40654 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
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