The design, error budget, and preliminary test results of a 50-56-GHz synthetic aperture
radiometer demonstration system are presented. The instrument consists of a fixed 24 …

Although Earth's surface parameters obtained from satellite data have become more and
more precise, it is still difficult to guarantee temporal consistency and spatial continuity for …

The GeoSTAR proof of concept demonstrator can be characterized at close range by means
of a simple near-to-farfield phase correction. This reduces the test set-up configuration to …

Two 65 nm bulk complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) digital application-
specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips were designed, and then tested in a heavy ion …

This paper reviews digital beam-forming as an alternative technology for the development of
passive millimetre wave (PMMW) imagers. Considering recent technology developments …

In mirrored aperture synthesis (MAS), the existing brightness temperature image
reconstruction methods include inverse cosine transform and impulse matrix reconstruction …

Synthetic aperture radiometer has the potential to meet the spatial resolution requirement of
passive microwave remote sensing from space. A one-dimensional prototype of aperture …

(57) ABSTRACT A space-borne interferometric radiometer for imaging a radiation emission
from a target scene (ED), comprising a plurality of receiving elements arranged in a two-or …

The Precipitation and All-weather Temperature and Humidity (PATH) mission is one of the
NASA missions recommended by the NRC in its recent Earth Science “Decadal Survey.” …

The geostationary synthetic thinned array radiometer represents a promising new approach
to microwave atmospheric sounding from geostationary orbit based on passive …