Calculational Methods for Predicting Thermal Radiation Signals at Satellites.

Abstract

This report describes the calculational methods developed to predict thermal radiation signals at satellite-borne detector systems resulting from radiation emitted by point isotropic thermal radiation sources positioned within the atmosphere. The time-dependent atmospheric transport data currently available from POLO Monte Carlo calculations are described and the methods available for convoluting the time dependent atmospheric transport data with the wavelength and time-dependent emission from thermal radiation sources are outlined. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 06, 1977
Accession Number
ADA039544

Entities

People

  • Ronald B. Livesay

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Altitude
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Atmospheres
  • Convolution
  • Corporations
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Equations
  • Errors
  • Infrared Radiation
  • Near Infrared Radiation
  • Radiation
  • Radiation Effects
  • Scaling Laws
  • Standards
  • Thermal Radiation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Solar Physics
  • Spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster