Paolo Martire
A space-borne Doppler radar end-to-end simulator for the ESA WIVERN mission.
Rel. Alessandro Battaglia, Fabrizio Stesina. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Aerospace Engineering, 2021
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Abstract
In June 2021, the WIVERN (WInd VElocity Radar Nephoscope) mission has been selected to enter Phase 0 studies in the context of the 11th call of the ESA Earth Explorer program. The mission will provide novel observations of global winds, clouds and precipitation by a ground-breaking conically scanning dual-polarization Doppler W-band (94-GHz) radar. End-to-End (E2E) simulators represent critical tools to assess in-flight performances and support the consolidation of mission architecture and payload design and are essential during Phase 0 ESA studies and beyond. This dissertation describes the original work carried out to develop an E2E radar simulator tailored to the WIVERN mission, showcasing its capabilities for a case study of interest.
The simulator reproduces WIVERN observations by simulating the satellite orbiting around the Earth in a polar Sun-synchronous orbit and looking down at an atmosphere described by a global circulation model that provides fine resolution vertical profiles of winds and clouds
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