Title :
STAR concept for passive microwave temperature sounding from middle earth orbit (MeoSTAR)
Author :
Wilson, William J. ; Tanner, Alan B. ; Lambrigtsen, Bjorn H. ; Doiron, Terence A. ; Piepmeier, Jeffrey R. ; Ruf, Chris S.
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
Abstract :
A future mission for a new microwave atmospheric temperature sounder radiometer in a middle Earth orbit (MEO) at 11,000 km altitude is described. The MeoSTAR design uses a stationary 1-dimensional Synthetic Thinned Array Radiometer in the 50-60 GHz microwave sounding band, to provide a "pushbroom" image as the satellite orbits. The advantage of this concept is an image with a high spatial resolution and a wide swath with no scanning antenna to disturb the visual and IR sensors on the same satellite
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; atmospheric techniques; atmospheric temperature; infrared detectors; radiometry; remote sensing; scanning antennas; 11000 km; 50 to 60 GHz; MeoSTAR; Synthetic Thinned Array Radiometer; atmospheric temperature sounder radiometer; high spatial resolution; middle Earth orbit; passive microwave temperature sounding; pushbroom image; satellite orbit; scanning antenna; stationary 1D STAR; visual/IR sensors; wide swath; Acoustic sensors; Earth; Image sensors; Infrared image sensors; Microwave antenna arrays; Microwave radiometry; Satellite antennas; Satellite broadcasting; Spatial resolution; Temperature;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8742-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1368520
