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Passive Microwave Technology

This page is under construction, and not all of the sections are complete.

On this page:

• Passive Microwave Technology Program Goals and Objectives
• Passive Microwave Technology Program Accomplishments (TBD)
• Passive Microwave Technology Program Milestones and Roadmaps (TBD)
• Passive Microwave Technology Program Progress Reports
• Additional Information

Passive Microwave Technology Program Goals and Objectives

The goal of the Passive Microwave program is to enable lightweight, large aperture passive space radiometry missions such as soil moisture and global rainfall monitoring.

The program has two major objectives:

1. Support industry by developing and evaluating passive radiometer component technology to improve calibration, reduce size, power, and cost of industry developed passive microwave radiometers.
2. Develop methodology to apply deployable approaches such as inflatable antenna reflectors with advanced pushbroom microwave radiometer technology.

Passive Microwave Technology Program Accomplishments

Under construction!

Passive Microwave Technology Program Milestones and Roadmaps

Under construction!

Passive Microwave Technology Program Progress Reports

• PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY program Status from LaRC.
• Extended Aperture Systems quarterly progress Report 5/10/94. HTML version of earlier quarterly report.

Additional Information

• The new Remote Sensing Thrust Office Page at the NASA Langley Research Center is online!
• Inflatable Antenna Flight Experiment Planned for 1996! For more information:
  • IN-STEP Inflatable Antenna Experiment page from the JPL Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry Project.
  • JPL Press Release: INDUSTRY PARTNER TO BE HONORED FOR INFLATABLE ANTENNA WORK from the JPL image/information archives.
• JPL Imaging Radar Page
• Press release on initial flight of a new airborne system for mapping coastal ocean salinity. This system consists of an imaging 6-beam, 1.4 GHz microwave radiometer, a two-channel infrared radiometer, a global positioning system for geolocation of the measurements, and a computer for data acquisition, processing, and control. The system was developed by Quadrant Engineering, Inc. of Hadley, Mass, under a Department of Commerce Small Business Innovative Research contract. For more information see the NOAA page.

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