Session 1 Operational SmallSats: Current Status and Near-Term Plans

Tuesday, 8 January 2019: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats
Chair:
Philip Ardanuy, INNOVIM, Silver Spring, MD

This session considers the fast-maturing SmallSat space, including NanoSats and CubeSats, and their emerging importance in operational meteorology, Earth system science, and remote sensing.

Papers:
1:30 PM
1.1
Calibration and Validation of the TEMPEST-D Radiometer
Wesley Berg, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. Brown, B. Lim, S. Padmanabhan, S. C. Reising, C. Kummerow, V. Chandrasekar, and T. Gaier
1:45 PM
1.2A
Achievement of Radio Occulation From Four GNSS Constellations
Alexander E. MacDonald, Spire Global, Inc., Boulder, CO
2:00 PM
1.3
Cloud Imaging and Environmental Monitoring Results from the CUbesat MULtispectral Observing System, CUMULOS
Dee W. Pack, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA; and J. Ostroy, C. M. Coffman, J. R. Santiago, and R. W. Russell
2:15 PM
1.4
Toward Resolving the Temporal Evolution of Precipitation Processes over the Ocean: On-Orbit Evaluation of the TEMPEST-D Microwave Radiometer
Shannon T. Brown, JPL, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and W. Berg, T. C. Gaier, B. Lim, S. Padmanabhan, S. C. Reising, and C. Venkatachalam
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