Preliminary evaluation of passive thermal control for the soil moisture active and passive (SMAP) radiometer

41st International Conference on Environmental Systems 2011, ICES 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mastropietro, A J ^a,c   Kwack, Eug ^a,c   Mikhaylov, Rebecca ^a,c   Spencer, Michael ^a,d   Hoffman, Pamela ^a,e   Dawson, Douglas ^a,d   Piepmeier, Jeff ^b,f   Hudson, Derek ^b,g   Medeiros, James ^b,f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Instrument Mechanical Thermal Subsystem   (United States)

^d Instrument Systems Engineering   (United States)

^e Instrument Mechanical Thermal Subsystem   (United States)

^f Instrument Radiometer   (United States)

^g Instrument Radiometer   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; HORN ANTENNAS; NASA; ORBITS; PARABOLIC ANTENNAS; RADIOMETERS; SCANNING ANTENNAS; THERMAL VARIABLES CONTROL; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACTIVE CONTROL SCHEMES; AGRICULTURE MONITORING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL; SENSITIVE ELECTRONICS; SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE (SMAP); SUN SYNCHRONOUS ORBITS; TRANSIENT ENVIRONMENT;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 85088181315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2011-5070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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