NASA NTRS · 20140002689
The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer: Present and Future
Abstract
The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) is an airborne passive microwave radiometer designed to provide high resolution, wide swath imagery of surface wind speed in tropical cyclones from a low profile planar antenna with no mechanical scanning. Wind speed and rain rate images from HIRAD's first field campaign (GRIP, 2010) are presented here followed, by a discussion on the performance of the newly installed thermal control system during the 2012 HS3 campaign. The paper ends with a discussion on the next generation dual polarization HIRAD antenna (already designed) for a future system capable of measuring wind direction as well as wind speed.
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Miller, Timothy L., James, M. W., Roberts, J. B., Biswas, S. K., Cecil, D., Jones, W. L., Johnson, J., Farrar, S., Sahawneh, S., Ruf, C. S., Morris, M., Uhlhorn, E. W., Black, P. G.. 2013-07-21. The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer: Present and Future. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20140002689
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