Advanced control and processing capabilities in the aquarius scatterometer flight electronics

Author

Fischman, Mark A. ; McWatters, Dalia A. ; Berkun, Andrew C. ; Cheetham, Craig M. ; Chu, Anhua J. ; Duong, Vu A. ; Freedman, Adam P. ; Hausmann, Robert W. ; Jourdan, Michael N. ; Kang, Edward C. ; Kobzeff, Peter A. ; Paller, Mimi

Author_Institution

California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

4920

Lastpage

4923

Abstract

The Aquarius mission requirement for 0.1 dB scatterometer measurement stability has driven the radar´s control and processing hardware design. Two new aspects of the flight electronics that contribute toward the overall stability will be discussed in this paper: 1) a high- rate radar timing mode for verifying performance on the ground, and 2) an onboard processor for flagging echoes corrupted by radio-frequency interference (RFI).

Keywords

artificial satellites; geophysical equipment; geophysical signal processing; radar signal processing; satellite computers; spaceborne radar; Aquarius advanced control capabilities; Aquarius advanced processing capabilities; Aquarius flight electronics; Aquarius mission; Aquarius scatterometer; RFI corrupted echo flagging processor; high rate radar timing mode; radar control hardware design; radar processing hardware design; radiofrequency interference; scatterometer measurement stability; Aerospace electronics; Hardware; Process control; Process design; Radar measurements; Radar scattering; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency interference; Stability; Timing; Radar timing; digital square-law detection; fiberoptic delay; field-programmable gate array (FPGA); loopback calibration; radiation tolerance; radio-frequency interference (RFI) mitigation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423965

Filename

4423965