An electrically scanned pushbroom phased antenna array is described for a microwave radiometer which can provide agriculturally meaningful measurements of soil moisture. The antenna size of 100 meters at 1400 MHz or 230 meters at 611 MHz requires several shuttle launches and orbital assembly. Problems inherent to the size of the structure and specific instrument problems are discussed as well as the preliminary design.
High resolution soil moisture radiometer
1978-01-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
Very high resolution radiometer
NTRS | 1973
|Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
NTIS | 1978
Advanced very high resolution radiometer
NTRS | 1978