TY - GEN
T1 - Compact airborne ka-band radar
T2 - 38th Annual IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2018
AU - Haimov, S.
AU - Pazmany, A.
AU - French, J.
AU - Geerts, B.
AU - Wang, Z.
AU - Deng, M.
AU - Rodi, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/10/31
Y1 - 2018/10/31
N2 - The University of Wyoming (UW) acquired a new compact airborne pulsed Ka-band (8-mm wavelength) Precipitation Radar (KPR) in 2016. Developed by ProSensing Inc. in collaboration with the UW Atmospheric Science Department, this radar operates from a standard Particle Measurement Systems (PMS) canister. Key components are an arbitrary transmit pulse waveform generator, a 10 W solid state power amplifier, and a pair of 14 cm diameter flat plate slotted waveguide array antennas for interleaved profiling above and below the aircraft. KPR is installed on the right wing of the UW King Air research aircraft (UWKA). The combined use of KPR, UWKA 3-mm wavelength cloud radar (WCR), cloud lidar (WCL), and in situ instruments allows for a better retrieval of cloud and precipitation properties and analysis of weather processes. In this paper we present this new Ka-band radar and show an example of the synergy between the in situ and the remote sensing instruments on board UWKA.
AB - The University of Wyoming (UW) acquired a new compact airborne pulsed Ka-band (8-mm wavelength) Precipitation Radar (KPR) in 2016. Developed by ProSensing Inc. in collaboration with the UW Atmospheric Science Department, this radar operates from a standard Particle Measurement Systems (PMS) canister. Key components are an arbitrary transmit pulse waveform generator, a 10 W solid state power amplifier, and a pair of 14 cm diameter flat plate slotted waveguide array antennas for interleaved profiling above and below the aircraft. KPR is installed on the right wing of the UW King Air research aircraft (UWKA). The combined use of KPR, UWKA 3-mm wavelength cloud radar (WCR), cloud lidar (WCL), and in situ instruments allows for a better retrieval of cloud and precipitation properties and analysis of weather processes. In this paper we present this new Ka-band radar and show an example of the synergy between the in situ and the remote sensing instruments on board UWKA.
KW - Airborne Doppler radar
KW - Airborne weather measurements
KW - Atmospheric research
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85064253682
U2 - 10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8519605
DO - 10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8519605
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85064253682
T3 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
SP - 897
EP - 900
BT - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2018 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 22 July 2018 through 27 July 2018
ER -