Title :
Design and development status of the EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar
Author :
Nakatsuka, Hirotaka ; Kimura, Toshiyoshi ; Seki, Yoshishiro ; Kadosaki, Gaku ; Iide, Yoshiya ; Okada, Kazuyuki ; Yamaguchi, Jun ; Takahashi, Nobuhiro ; Ohno, Yuich ; Horie, Hiroaki ; Sato, Kenji
Author_Institution :
Japan Aerosp. Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
The Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) for the EarthCARE mission has been jointly developed by JAXA and NICT in Japan. The CPR is a millimeter-wave radar which has a large deployable antenna and its unique feature is vertical Doppler velocity measurement capability. The Engineering Model development and testing are now ongoing and the predicted performance will be verified after a series of tests. This paper will present the latest design and development status of the EarthCARE CPR.
Keywords :
Doppler effect; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; clouds; meteorological radar; radar antennas; remote sensing by radar; EarthCARE cloud profiling radar; JAXA; NICT; antenna; engineering model development; millimeter wave radar; vertical Doppler velocity measurement capability; Clouds; Doppler effect; Doppler radar; Radar antennas; Satellites; Spaceborne radar; CPR; Doppler; EarthCARE; cloud; radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351004
