Optimal Antenna Coatings for High Frequency Microwave Radiometers: DMSP SSMIS Case Study
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The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) has flown three Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounders (SSMIS), first conceived in early 1989, and first flown in October of 2003. Many technical challenges have been overcome during the design, build, and test phases of the program, and many challenges have presented themselves during the calibration and validation phases of the program for the first instrument launched in 2003, the second in 2006, and the third in 2009. All of the identified performance issues have been solved including the subject of this paper, namely, the design of optimal antenna coatings for microwave radiometers up to 190 GHz. The purpose of this paper is to share our research on the design, build, and test of the new high performance antenna.
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