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  • Active membrane phased array radar 
    Moussessian, Alina; Del Castillo, Linda; Huang, John; Sadowy, Greg; Hoffman, James; Smith, Phil; Hatake, Toshiro; Derksen, Chuck; Lopez, Bernardo; Caro, Ed (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2005., 2005-06-12)
    We have developed the first membrane-based active phased array in L-band (1.26GHz). The array uses membrane compatible Transmit/Receive (T/R) modules (membrane T/R) for each antenna element. We use phase shifters within ...
  • Advanced geostationary radar for hurricane monitoring and studies 
    Im, Eastwood; Durden, Stephen L.; Rahmat-Samii, Yahya; Fang, Houfei; Cable, Vaughn; Lou, Michael; Huang, John (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004., 2004-04)
    The current Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) are equipped to make cloud top measurements only. In contrast, a millimeter-wave radar allows 3-D measurements of precipitation associated with hurricanes ...
  • Airborne Ku-band polarimetric radar remote sensing of terrestrial snow cover 
    Yueh, Simon; Cline, Donald; Elder, Kelly (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008., 2008-05-26)
    Preliminary analyses of the POLSCAT data acquired from the CLPX-II in winter 2006-2007 are described in this paper. The data showed the response of the Ku-band radar echoes to snowpack changes for various types of ...
  • Application and operations concepts of large transmit phased array of parabolic reflectors 
    Amoozegar, Farid (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006., 2006-03-06)
    The primary motive for large transmit array of parabolic reflectors, also known as Uplink Array, was to explore alternate methods in order to replace the large 70m antennas of Deep Space Network (DSN) such that the core ...
  • Applications of SMAP data to retrieval of ocean surface wind and salinity 
    Yueh, Simon; Fore, Alexander; Tang, Wenqing; Hayashi, Akiko; Stiles, Bryan; Zhang, Fuqing; Weng, Yonghui; Reul, Nicolas (Pasadena, CA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2016, 2016-09-26)
    We have examined the L-band radiometer and radar data from NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission for ocean research and applications. We find that the SMAP data are in excellent agreement with the geophysical ...
  • APR-2 tropical cyclone observations 
    Durden, S.; Tanelli, S. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2011., 2011-09-26)
  • APR-2 tropical cyclone observations 
    Durden, S. L.; Tanelli, S. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2011., 2011-09-26)
    The Second Generation Airborne Precipitation Radar (APR-2) participated in the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment in August and September of 2010, collecting a large volume of data in several ...
  • Cassini RADAR observations of Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Iapetus, Hyperion, and Phoebe 
    Ostro, Steven J.; West, Richard D.; Janssen, Michael A.; Lorenz, Ralph D.; Zebker, Howard A.; Black, Gregory J.; Lunine, Jonathan I.; Wye, Lauren C; Lopes, Rosaly M.; Wall, Stephen D.; Elachi, Charles; Roth, Laci; Hensley, Scott; Kelleher, Kathleen; Hamilton, Gary A.; Gim, Yonggyu; Anderson, Yanhua Z.; Boehmer, Rudy A; Johnson, William T.K. (Elsevier Science Inc., 2006-04-27)
    The Cassini mission includes 34 investigations of Saturn’s icy satellites by the 2.2-cm-wavelength (13.8-GHz) RADAR instrument, operating both as a scatterometric radar and a passive radiometer. These measurements are ...
  • Challenges of communications and tracking for solar system small body exploration 
    Rush, John J.; Lichten, Stephen M.; Srinivasan, Jeffrey M.; Estabrook, Polly; Pollara, Fabrizio; Deutsch, Les; Preston, Robert; Hemmati, Hamid (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2011., 2011-01-24)
  • CloudSat : the Cloud Profiling Radar Mission 
    Im, Eastwood; Durden, Stephen L.; Tanelli, Simone (Chinese Institute of Electronics., 2006-10-16)
    The Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR), the primary science instrument of the CloudSat Mission, is a 94-GHz nadir-looking radar that measures the power backscattered by clouds as a function of distance from the radar. This ...
  • Conceptual design of a geostationary radar for hurricane studies 
    Im, Eastwood; Smith, Eric A.; Durden, Stephen L.; Tanelli, Simone; Huang, John; Rahmat-Samii, Yahya; Lou, Michael (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2003., 2003-11)
    A novel 35-GHz Doppler radar instrument concept and the associated critical technologies are being developed for detailed monitoring of hurricanes and severe storms from a geostationary orbit. This instrument is designed ...
  • Design of a large dual polarized Ku band reflectarray for space borne radar altimeter 
    Hodges, Richard E.; Zawadzki, Mark (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004., 2004-06-20)
    We describe the design of a large dual-beam, dual polarized reflectarray designed for a space-based radar altimeter. This application requires a 2.16 X 0.35 m aperture that can be folded for launch stowage. Low mass and ...
  • A dual-frequency spaceborne SAR mission concept 
    Rosen, P.; Kim, Y.; Eisen, H.; Shaffer, S.; Veilleux, L.; Hensley, S.; Chakraborty, M.; Misra, T.; Satish, R.; Putrevu, D.; Bhan, R. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2013, 2013-07-24)
  • The effects of temporal and topographic decorrelation on forest height retrieval using airborne repeat-pass L-Band polarimetric SAR interferometry 
    Denbina, Michael; Simard, Marc (2016-07-10)
    We have explored the effects of temporal baseline and terrain slope on forest height estimation using L-band repeat-pass polarimetric-interferometric synthetic aperture radar (PolIn-SAR). Data were collected using NASA’s ...
  • Estimating and modeling S-band lunar radar backscatter 
    Thompson, Tommy; Ustinov, Eugene (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006., 2006-07-17)
  • Fine resolution topographic mapping of the Jovian moons : a Ka-band high resolution topographic mapping interferometric synthetic aperature radar. 
    Madsen, Soren N.; Carsey, Frank D.; Turtle, Elizabeth P. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2003., 2003-06-12)
    The topographic data set obtained by MOLA has provided an unprecedented level of information about Mars’ geologic features. The proposed flight of JIMO provides an opportunity to accomplish a similar mapping of and comparable ...
  • Flood warnings, flood disaster assessments, and flood hazard reduction : the roles of orbital remote sensing 
    Brakenridge, G. Robert; Anderson, Elaine; Nghiem, Son V.; Caquard, Sebastien; Shabaneh, Tamer B. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006., 2003-11-10)
    Orbital remote sensing is now poised to make three fundamental contributions towards reducing the detrimental effects of extreme floods. Effective Flood warning requires frequent (near-daily) radar observation of the Earth's ...
  • Flood warnings, flood disaster assessments, and flood hazard reduction: the roles of orbital remote sensing 
    Brakenridge, G. Robert; Anderson, E.; Nghiem, Son V.; Caquard, S.; Shabaneh, T. B. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2003., 2003-11)
    Orbital remote sensing of the Earth is now poised to make three fundamental contributions towards reducing the detrimental effects of extreme floods. Effective Flood warning requires frequent radar observation of the ...
  • Flood warnings, flood disaster assessments, and flood hazard reduction: the roles of orbital remote sensing 
    Brakenridge, G. Robert; Anderson, Elaine; Nghiem, Son V.; Caquard, Sebastien; Shabaneh, Tamer B. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2003., 2003-11)
    Orbital remote sensing is now poised to make three fundamental contribution towards reducing the detrimental effects of extreme floods.
  • Ground processing of Cassini RADAR imagery of Titan 
    Stiles, Bryan W.; Gim, Yonggyu; Hamilton, Gary; Hensley, Scott; Johnson, William T. K.; Shimada, Joanne; West, Richard D.; Callahan, Phil (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006., 2006-04-24)
    This paper describes the ground processing of Cassini SAR data. We focus upon the unusual features of the data and how these features impact the processing. We exhibit a data dependent mechanism we have implemented for ...