F4  Remote Sensing: Small Satellites and RFI Mitigation

Friday, January 11  08:20-12:00  Room 155

Session Chairs:  Steven Reising, Albin Gasiewski

08:20  F4-1  RAINCUBE, A KA-BAND PRECIPITATION RADAR MISSION IN A CUBESAT

Eva Peral1, Shannon Statham1, Simone Tanelli1, Shivani Joshi*1, Travis Imken1, Douglas Price1, Jonathan Sauder1, Nacer Chahat1, Austin Williams2

1JPL, Pasadena, CA
2Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc, Irvine, CA


08:40  F4-2  ICECUBE’S 15-MONTH EXPERIMENT WITH A COMMERCIAL 883-GHZ CLOUD RADIOMETER

Dong L. Wu*1, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier1, Jaime Esper1, Negar Ehsan1, Paul E. Racette1, Thomas E. Johnson1, Brian S. Abresh1, Eric Bryerton2

1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
2Virginia Diodes, Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia


09:00  F4-3  STATUS OF THE MICROMAS-2 AND TROPICS CUBESAT MISSIONS

William Blackwell*

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA


09:20  F4-4  THE CUBESAT RADIOMETER RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE TECHNOLOGY VALIDATION (CUBERRT) MISSION

Joel T. Johnson*1, Christa McKelvey1, Chris Ball1, Chi-Chih Chen1, Graeme Smith1, Mark Andrews1, Sidharth Misra2, Shannon Brown2, Robert Jarnot2, Rudi Bendig2, Carl Felten2, Kevin Horgan3, Jared Lucey3, Jinzheng Peng3, Jeffrey Piepmeier3, Michael Solly3, Joseph Knuble3, Jonathon Kocz4, Doug Laczkowski5, Matt Pallas5

1The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
4California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
5Blue Canyon Technologies, Inc., Boulder, CO


09:40  F4-5  EARLY RESULTS OF HURRICANE AND SEVERE STORM OBSERVATIONS FROM TEMPORAL EXPERIMENT FOR STORMS AND TROPICAL SYSTEMS - DEMONSTRATION (TEMPEST-D) MISSION

Steven C. Reising*1, Todd C. Gaier2, Sharmila Padmanabhan2, Boon H. Lim2, Shannon T. Brown2, Cate Heneghan2, Wesley Berg1, Christian D. Kummerow1, V. Chandrasekar1, Matthew Pallas3, Doug Laczkowski3, C Radhakrishnan1

1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2NASA/Caltech, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
3Blue Canyon Technologies, Boulder, CO


10:20  F4-6  INITIAL RADIANCE VALIDATION OF ON-ORBIT MICROMAS-2A DATA

Angela Crews*1, William Blackwell2, R. Vincent Leslie2, Michael Grant3, Idahosa Osaretin2, Michael DiLiberto2, Adam Milstein2, Kerri Cahoy1

1MIT, Cambridge, MA
2MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
3NASA Langley, Hampton, VA


10:40  F4-7  RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE PROCESSING FOR THE CUBESAT RADIOMETER RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE TECHNOLOGY VALIDATION (CUBERRT) MISSION

Joel T. Johnson*1, Christa McKelvey1, Chris Ball1, Graeme Smith1, Mark Andrews1, Sidharth Misra2, Shannon Brown2, Robert Jarnot2, Rudi Bendig2, Carl Felten2, Kevin Horgan3, Jinzheng Peng3, Jeffrey Piepmeier3, Jonathon Kocz4

1The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
4California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA


11:00  F4-8  ATMOSPHERIC AND IONOSPHERIC RADIO OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS OBTAINED FROM SPIRE’S NANOSATELLITE CONSTELLATION

Vu Nguyen*1, Vladimir Irisov1, Tim Duly1, Oleguer Nogues-Correig2, Linus Tan3, Takayuki Yuasa3, Dallas Masters1

1Spire Global, Inc., Boulder, CO
2Spire Global, Inc., Glasgow, UNITED KINGDOM
3Spire Global, Inc., Singapore, SINGAPORE


11:20  F4-9  SIGNALS OF OPPORTUNITY P-BAND INVESTIGATION (SNOOPI)

James L. Garrison*1, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier2, Rashmi Shah3, David Spencer1, Manuel A. Vega2

1School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2555, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, MD
3NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA


11:40  F4-10  DIGITAL BACK END FOR PERFORMING HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROMETRY IN CORRELATION RADIOMETERS

Aravind Venkitasubramony*1, Eryan Dai1, Albin J. Gasiewski1, Maciej Stachura2, Jack Elston2

1CU Boulder, Boulder
2Blackswift Technologies LLC, Boulder