Remote Sensing of Precipitation from 6U-Class Small Satellite Constellations: Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Technology Demonstration (TEMPEST-D)

Steven C Reising1, Todd Gaier2, Christian Kummerow3, V. Chandrasekar4, Sharmila Padmanabhan2, Boon Lim2, Cate Heneghan2, Wesley K Berg3, Jonathan P Olson5, Shannon Thomas Brown6, John Carvo7 and Matthew Pallas7, (1)Colorado State University, Microwave Systems Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Blue Canyon Technologies, Boulder, CO, United States