The Smart Ice Cloud Sensing (SMICES) is a small-sat concept in which a primary radar intelligently targets ice storms based on information collected by a lookahead radiometer.

The final goal of SMICES is to demonstrate the instrument on a small satellite (SmallSat) platform in low-Earth orbit (LEO). As an intermediate step, the current goal of the project is to demonstrate a low-power, reconfigurable, smart instrument combining both active, (i.e.: 239-GHz radar), and passive sensors (i.e., submillimeter wave radiometers and a submillimeter wave sounder), on board of a Northrop Grumman Corporation Gulfstream II aircraft.

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Instrument specifics

• Status: IN DEVELOPMENT
• Type: three passive multi-band radiometers with active millimeter-wave radar system

Platform(s)

• G-II

Campaigns flown

• Planned test flights

Contact

Pekka Kangaslahti