Advanced control and processing capabilities in the aquarius scatterometer flight electronics

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4920-4923

  Fischman, Mark A ^a   McWatters, Dalia A ^a   Berkun, Andrew C ^a   Cheetham, Craig M ^a   Chu, Anhua J ^a   Duong, Vu A ^a   Freedman, Adam P ^a   Hausmann, Robert W ^a   Jourdan, Michael N ^a   Kang, Edward C ^a   Kobzeff, Peter A ^a   Paller, Mimi ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital square law detection; Fiberoptic delay; Field programmable gate array (FPGA); Loopback calibration; Radar timing; Radiation tolerance; Radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation

Indexed keywords

AQUARIUS MISSION; FIBEROPTIC DELAY; FLIGHT ELECTRONICS; LOOPBACK CALIBRATION; RADIATION TOLERANCE;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); IMAGE PROCESSING; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPACE FLIGHT;

RADAR;

EID: 82355186086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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