http://defensetech.org/2006/05/02/sunny-with-a-75-chance-of-air-superiority/ The Future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://defensetech.org/2006/05/02/sunny-with-a-75-chance-of-air-superiority/#comment-129619 Haninah Wed, 03 May 2006 01:30:57 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3190#comment-129619 Interesting thought, C-Low, but the official resolution of CloudSat is on the order of hundreds of meters to kilometers per pixel. See http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/cloudsat-calipso-launch.pdf An ISR radar like SBR would have a resolution on the scale of centimeters to meters. In general, the requirements for ISR and weather-data collection are pretty different. Weather radar generally has a very wide field of view and a relatively low resolution, and also would generally be optimised to reflect off different types of surfaces (if you think about it, the point of using radar for satellite ISR is precisely that it doesn't get stopped by clouds and other atmospheric stuff). Interesting thought, C-Low, but the official resolution of CloudSat is on the order of hundreds of meters to kilometers per pixel. See http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/cloudsat-calipso-launch.pdf
An ISR radar like SBR would have a resolution on the scale of centimeters to meters.
In general, the requirements for ISR and weather-data collection are pretty different. Weather radar generally has a very wide field of view and a relatively low resolution, and also would generally be optimised to reflect off different types of surfaces (if you think about it, the point of using radar for satellite ISR is precisely that it doesn’t get stopped by clouds and other atmospheric stuff).

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