Persistent Identifier
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hdl:2014/40654 |
Publication Date
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2006-02-28 |
Title
| Performance evaluation of the Geostationary Synthetic Thinned Array Radiometer (GeoSTAR) demonstrator instrument |
Author
| Tanner, Alan B. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.)
Wilson, William J. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.)
Lambrigsten, Bjorn H. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.)
Dinardo, Steven J. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.)
Brown, Shannon T. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.)
Kangaslahti, Pekka P. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.)
Gaier, Todd C. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.)
Ruf, C. S. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.)
Gross, S. M. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.)
Lim, B. H. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.)
Musko, S. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.)
Rogacki, S. (Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.) |
Point of Contact
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Tanner, Alan B. |
Description
| 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. |
Subject
| Other |
Production Date
| 2006-02-28 |