Ultra-high performance C L-band radiometer system for future spaceborne ocean missions
Paper in proceeding, 2018

A next generation spaceborne radiometer system for hi-quality ocean measurements is discussed. Instead of a classical horn, a focal plane array is used as antenna feed. The antenna beam is created by adding the outputs from many small antenna elements, thus providing an antenna beam of unsurpassed quality. This solves the classical polarization purity and land/sea contamination issues. The concept requires many microwave receivers and fast analog-to-digital converters as well as fast digital signal processing on-board the satellite. This is discussed, and resource budgets, especially concerning power, are provided.

microwave

focal plane array

radiometer

receiver

Author

N. Skou

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

S. S. Søbjærg

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

S.S. Kristensen

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

C. Cappellin

TICRA

Katrine Pontoppidan

TICRA

J. R. De Lasson

TICRA

Marianna Ivashina

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Oleg Iupikov

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

15th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, MicroRad 2018 - Proceedings

42-47 8430705

15th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, MicroRad 2018
Cambridge, USA,

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Signal Processing

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/MICRORAD.2018.8430705

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