Conference Proceeding

MIRAS-SMOS antenna relative phase calibration

08/2008; DOI:10.1109/APS.2008.4619238 pp.1 - 4 In proceeding of: Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE
Source: IEEE Xplore

ABSTRACT SMOS is the acronym of dasiaSoil Moisture and Ocean Salinitypsila and it refers to a European Space Agency (ESA) mission aimed at providing global maps of soil moisture over land and sea surface salinity over oceans. The mission has a single payload, the Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS), which is an L-band radiometer using an interferometric technique to synthesize high resolution beams. It is formed by 69 antennas evenly distributed on a Y-shaped mechanical structure. The instrument was manufactured by EADS-CASA Espacio (ES) and was delivered to ESA for testing in May 2007. The payload is now integrated with the platform and ready for launching in November 2008.

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Keywords

69 antennas
 
Aperture Synthesis
 
dasiaSoil Moisture
 
EADS-CASA Espacio
 
European Space Agency
 
global maps
 
L-band radiometer
 
Microwave Imaging Radiometer
 
ready
 
sea surface salinity
 
single payload
 
soil moisture
 
Y-shaped mechanical structure
 

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