J.P. Lux

TL;DR: In order to achieve highly accurate calibration of the SeaWinds scatterometer, a calibration ground station (CGS) was constructed by JPL at White Sands, New Mexico, in association with the QuikSCAT mission.

TL;DR: The implementation of a Multi Digital Signal Processor for radar return analysis on a Ku-Band Earth orbiting scatterometer is discussed and test results of real-time radar echo processing are presented.

TL;DR: Common components were evaluated for use in an orbiting Ku-band polarimetric scatterometer that will enable measurements of near-surface wind speeds for over 90% of the ice-free oceans.

TL;DR: A testbed for evaluation of general-purpose digital signal processors in earth-orbiting radar scatterometers is discussed, and performance of the DSP subsystem was evaluated in terms of measured vs. theoretical execution speed, timing accuracy, power consumption, and computational accuracy.

TL;DR: In this article, the design and test results for the Radio Frequency (RF) portion of a breadboard polarimetric scatterometer operating at 13.402 GHz are presented. But the results are limited to a single channel transmitter that converts the I/Q baseband transmit waveform up to Ku band.