SBIR/STTR Research Award
PASSIVE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS OF WATER VAPOR PROFILES
Award amount
$591,585Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1996Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- PROSENSING INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- UT6TTY73HHY5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
In order to address the Navy's need to acquire vertical profiles of water vapor without detection by the enemy, Quadrant Engineering proposes to design a passive millimeter wave radiometer operating at 22 GHz. Profiling is achieved by frequency scanning about the 22 GHz resonance line in order to receive thermal emission from selected altitude regions as determined by the weighting functions derived from teh radiative transfer equation. The Phase I effort will include a apaper study to determine accuracy limits on the derived values of water vapor, and to determine the altitude resolution of the measurement. This investigation will directly lead to specifications of the instrument and instrument design.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Sun-Tracking Millimeter Wave Radiometer
- Ground Based Sensor for measurement of V and W band satellite link propagation channel
- Ground Based Sensor for measurement of V and W band satellite link propagation channel
- Dual Frequency Millimeter-Wave Radar-Radiometer System for Volume Imaging of Clouds
- Dual Frequency Millimeter-Wave Radar-Radiometer System for Volume Imaging of Clouds
Research funding history
64 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1990–2018). Reported award amounts total $12,271,674. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation