The high value of Radar and Lidar data for understanding climate change and earth dynamics led to the prioritization of the Deformation, Ecosystem Structure and Dynamics of Ice (DESDynI) mission as Tier One in the last National Academy of Sciences' Earth Science Decadal Survey. A mission concept that matched those desired objectives underwent pre-Project development and passed several layers of review in late 2010 and early 2011 with the target of a 2017 launch. However, cuts in the proposed FY2012 budget forced a reset of the Radar mission and eliminated the Lidar sciencecraft. The proposed DESDynI- Radar mission may now fulfill a more limited set of objectives with a more modest budget on a longer development timescale. A multitude of options have been studied with varying levels of cost, risk and science value. Flight and Ground system implementations have a direct bearing on many of these factors and will also be addressed. The methodology and status of evaluating these options will be discussed. A key distinguishing characteristic of the projected DESDynI-Radar measurement would be large scale coverage and frequent revisit at fine resolution. This would be enabled via a new Radar technique called SweepSAR. Efforts to develop and field test SweepSAR will also be discussed, as well as other technology developments underway that are associated with this mission


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    Titel :

    Conceptual Development of the DESDynI Mission


    Beteiligte:
    Eisen, Howard J. (Autor:in) / Jai, Ben (Autor:in) / Rosen, Paul A. (Autor:in) / Veilleux, Louise (Autor:in) / Xaypraseuth, Peter (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    IEEE Aerospace Conference ; 2012 ; Big Sky, MT, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2012-03-05


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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