TH4.L8: Earth Remote Sensing with Small Satellites II

Session Type: Oral
Time: Thursday, July 14, 15:40 - 17:20
Location: Room 310
Session Chairs: Boon Lim, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Adriano Camps, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech and IEEC/CTE-UPC
 
15:40 - 16:00
TH4.L8.1: POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS OF SMALL SATELLITE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS FOR MONITORING AND PREDICTING HURRICANES AND TYPHOONS
         Fuzhong Weng; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
         Yuan Ma; University of Maryland
         Hu Yang; University of Maryland
         Xiaolei Zou; University of Maryland
 
16:00 - 16:20
TH4.L8.2: TEMPORAL EXPERIMENT FOR STORMS AND TROPICAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION (TEMPEST-D): REDUCING RISK FOR 6U-CLASS NANOSATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS
         Steven Reising; Colorado State University
         Todd Gaier; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
         Christian Kummerow; Colorado State University
         Sharmila Padmanabhan; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
         Boon Lim; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
         Shannon Brown; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
         Cate Heneghan; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
         V. Chandrasekar; Colorado State University
         Jon Olson; Colorado State University
         Wesley Berg; Colorado State University
 
16:20 - 16:40
TH4.L8.3: DEMONSTRATING A LOW-COST SUSTAINABLE PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSOR ARCHITECTURE: THE COMPACT OCEAN WIND VECTOR RADIOMETER MISSION
         Shannon Brown; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Paolo Focardi; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Amarit Kitiyakara; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Frank Maiwald; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Lance Milligan; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Oliver Montes; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Sharmila Padmanabhan; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Richard Redick; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Damon Russel; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Vin Bach; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Phillip Walkemeyer; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
 
16:40 - 17:00
TH4.L8.4: PRELAUNCH ANTENNA CALIBRATION OF CUBESAT MMW/SMMW RADIOMETERS WITH APPLICATION TO THE POLARCUBE 3U TEMPERATURE SOUNDING RADIOMETER MISSION
         Lavanya Periasamy; University of Colorado Boulder
         Albin J. Gasiewski; University of Colorado Boulder
 
17:00 - 17:20
TH4.L8.5: MICROWAVE CUBESAT FLEET SIMULATION FOR HYDROMETRIC TRACKING IN SEVERE WEATHER
         Kun Zhang; University of Colorado Boulder
         Albin J. Gasiewski; University of Colorado Boulder