A spaceborne Doppler radar for 3D winds mapping inside clouds

Author

Taveneau, N. ; Caubet, E. ; Richard, J. ; Lorenzo, J. ; Albouys, V. ; Souyris, J.C. ; Viltard, N. ; Lemaitre, Y.

Author_Institution

Thales Alenia Space France, Toulouse, France

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

2721

Lastpage

2724

Abstract

This paper presents the design of two spaceborne Doppler radar for 3D winds mapping inside cloud at 94 GHz : first one corresponds to radar with high quality of the retrieved 3D components of the wind field without scanning capability (fixed antenna with two reflectors) ; second one corresponds to scanning Doppler radar with swath width capability thanks to conical scanning antenna (rotation of all the instrument).

Keywords

Doppler radar; atmospheric techniques; clouds; meteorological radar; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; wind; 3D wind mapping; clouds; conical scanning antenna; fixed antenna; frequency 94 GHz; instrument rotation; reflectors; scanning Doppler radar; spaceborne Doppler radar; swath width capability; wind field; Clouds; Doppler effect; Doppler radar; Radar antennas; Spaceborne radar; Three dimensional displays; Spaceborne Doppler radar; cloud reflectivity; conical scanning; dual polar mode; pulse pair estimator; wind mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049776

Filename

6049776