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STAR Concept for Passive Microwave Temperature Sounding from Middle Earth Orbit (MeoSTAR)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 l-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.
Document ID
20070022509
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
External Source(s)
hdl:2014/39969
Authors
Wilson, William J. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Tanner, Alan B. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lambrigtsen, Bjorn H. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Doiron, Terence A. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Piepmeier, Jeffrey R. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Ruf, Chris S. (Michigan Univ. Ann Arbor, MI, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
September 1, 2004
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Meeting Information
Meeting: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IGARSS)
Location: Anchorage, AK
Country: United States
Start Date: September 1, 2004
Sponsors: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
microwave radiometers
atmospheric sounding

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