Nanosatellites for earth environmental monitoring: The MicroMAS project

W Blackwell, G Allen, C Galbraith… - 2012 12th Specialist …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Micro-sized Microwave Atmospheric Satellite (MicroMAS) is a 3D cubesat (30× 10× 10
cm, 4kg) hosting a passive microwave spectrometer operating near the 118.75-GHz oxygen …

An L-and C-band radiometer utilizing distributed active hot and cold loads with 156% fractional bandwidth

X Bi, Z Feng, S Guan, Z Cao, Y Mei, J Li… - … on microwave theory …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an-and-band radiometer with integrated wideband active hot and cold
loads (AHCLs). By seamlessly integrating the distributed low noise amplifying unit and the …

REFRACTT 2006: Real-time retrieval of high-resolution, low-level moisture fields from operational NEXRAD and research radars

RD Roberts, F Fabry, PC Kennedy… - Bulletin of the …, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Refractivity Experiment for H 2 O Research and Collaborative Operational Technology
Transfer (REFRACTT), conducted in northeast Colorado during the summer of 2006 …

K-band SiGe system-on-chip radiometric receiver for remote sensing of the atmosphere

L Aluigi, D Pepe, F Alimenti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
System-on-chip (SoC) miniaturization of radiometric sensors could dramatically improve
quantitatively the study of Earth's atmosphere in the microwave-and millimeter-wave …

A microwave radiometer for internal body temperature measurement

RP Scheeler - 2013 - search.proquest.com
This thesis presents the analysis and design of a microwave radiometer for internal body
temperature measurements. There is currently no available method for non-invasive …

Retrieval of atmospheric water vapor density with fine spatial resolution using three-dimensional tomographic inversion of microwave brightness temperatures …

S Padmanabhan, SC Reising… - … on Geoscience and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantitative precipitation forecasting is currently limited by the paucity of observations on
sufficiently fine temporal and spatial scales. Three-dimensional water vapor fields can be …

InP HEMT low-noise amplifier-based millimeter-wave radiometers from 90 to 180 GHz with internal calibration for remote sensing of atmospheric wet-path delay

SC Reising, P Kangaslahti, ST Brown… - 2012 IEEE/MTT-S …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent introduction of 35-nm gate length InP MMIC low-noise amplifiers has enabled
significant advances in Earth remote sensing. These low-noise amplifiers achieve 2-dB and …

Fire detection by microwave radiometric sensors: Modeling a scenario in the presence of obstacles

G Tasselli, F Alimenti, S Bonafoni… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with the problem of fire detection in the presence of obstacles that are
nontransparent to visible or infrared wavelengths. Exploiting the obstacle penetration …

Brightness temperature sensitivity to whitecap fraction at millimeter wavelengths

MH Bettenhausen, MD Anguelova - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Accurate representation of the ocean-atmosphere coupling in weather, wave and climate
models requires reliable estimates of air-sea surface fluxes of momentum, heat and mass …

A preliminary assessment of the value and impact of multiple configurations of constellations of EON-MW, a proposed 12U microwave sounder CubeSat for global …

Y Zhou, N Shahroudi, T Zhu… - Tellus A: Dynamic …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Observing system assessments were made for the Earth Observing Nanosatellite-
Microwave (EON-MW), a 12U CubeSat analog of the Advanced Technology Microwave …