Demonstrating a low-cost sustainable passive microwave sensor architecture: The Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer Mission

The Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) is new type of conical sensor ideal for small satellite implementation. This paper provides an overview of the COWVR sensor, mission and provides perspectives for the future of this technology to enable low-cost sustainable passive microwave observations into the next decade.

[1]  A.J. Gasiewski,et al.  Laboratory demonstration of electronic polarization basis rotation , 1992, 1992 IEEE Microwave Symposium Digest MTT-S.

[2]  Ignasi Corbella,et al.  A calibration method for fully polarimetric microwave radiometers , 2003, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens..

[3]  W. Linwood Jones,et al.  The WindSat spaceborne polarimetric microwave radiometer: sensor description and early orbit performance , 2004, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

[4]  David G. Long,et al.  Stokes Antenna Temperatures , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.