2006 Radar Conference

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radar--Congresses.

Radar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] I E E E 2006

Language Note:

English

Summary:

NASA is currently developing advanced instrument concepts and technologies for future spaceborne atmospheric radars, with an over-arching objective of making such instruments more capable in supporting future science needs and more cost effective. Two such examples are the Second- Generation Precipitation Radar (PR-2) and the Nexrad-In- Space (NIS). PR-2 is a 14/35-GHz dual-frequency rain radar with a deployable 5-meter, wide-swath scanned membrane antenna, a dual-polarized/dual-frequency receiver, and a realtime digital signal processor. It is intended for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) operations to provide greatly enhanced rainfall profile retrieval accuracy while consuming only a fraction of the mass of the current TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR). NIS is designed to be a 35-GHz Geostationary Earth Orbiting (GEO) radar for providing hourly monitoring of the life cycle of hurricanes and tropical storms. It uses a 35-m, spherical, lightweight membrane antenna and Doppler processing to acquire 3-dimensional information on the intensity and vertical motion of hurricane rainfall.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9781509092529

1509092528