Advanced Spaceborne Rain Radar Instrument Concepts and Technology

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作者：
Im, Eastwood [1 ]
Durden, Stephen L. [1 ]
机构：
[1] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
来源：
2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM, VOLS 1-8 | 2006年
关键词：
precipitation; hurricane; radar; antenna; TRMM;
D O I：
10.1109/IGARSS.2006.988
中图分类号：
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号：
07 ;
摘要：
Two of the advanced instrument concepts and technologies developed under NASA's Earth Science Instrument Incubator Program are the Second-Generation Precipitation Radar (PR-2) and the Nexrad-In-Space (NIS). PR-2 is a 14/35-GHz dual-frequency, dual-polarized Doppler rain radar with a deployable scanning antenna for Low-Earth orbit (LEO) operations to provide improved rainfall profile measurements. 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.
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页码：3853 / 3856
页数：4
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