Randall Alliss (Northrop Grumman Corporation)
Keywords: Space Weather, Atmospherics, Clouds, imaging, communications
Abstract:
Many space based applications from imaging to communications are impacted by the atmosphere. Atmospheric impacts such as optical turbulence and clouds are the main drivers for these types of systems. For example, in space based optical communications, clouds will produce channel fades on the order of many hundreds of decibels (dB) thereby breaking the communication link. Optical turbulence can also produce fades but can be compensated for by adaptive optics.
Date of Conference: September 10-13, 2013
Track: Poster