Harunobu Masuko

TL;DR: In this article, the results from the analyses of several spaceborne imaging radar-C/X-band synthetic aperture radar images were presented, which were acquired during the two Space Shuttle Endeavour missions in April and October 1994 by the L-, C-, and X-band multipolarization SAR aboard the space shuttle Endeavor.

TL;DR: In this article, an airborne microwave scatterometer-radiometer system operated in X band and Ka band was applied to the observations of microwave backscattering signatures of the ocean, and the normalized radar cross sections σ0 were measured as combined functions of microwave frequency (10.00 GHz and 34.43 GHz), polarization (HH and VV), incident angle (0°−70°), azimuth angle ( 0°−360°), and wind speed (3.2−17.2 m/s).

TL;DR: The Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) was successfully launched and attached to the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) on the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 September 2009 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a superconducting submillimeter-wave limb-emission sounder (SMILES) is used for global mappings of stratospheric trace gases by means of the most sensitive sub-millimeter receiver ever operated in space.