Publisher:Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2013
Citation:IEEE Radar Conference : The Arctic - the new frontier, Ottawa, Canada, April 29 - May 3, 2013
Abstract:
The Mars Science Laboratory’s rover named Curiosity successfully landed on Mars on August 6, 2012. One component of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) system was the Terminal Descent Sensor (TDS) landing radar. In this paper we describe laboratory testing of this radar performed before launch.
We describe a computationally efficient nearly-optimal Bayesian algorithm to estimate rain profiles, given a radar reflectivity profile at a single attenuating wavelength.