Data from Space: Adaptive Array Network Could Improve Access to NASA's Earth Observing Satellites

Georgia Tech Research News, 23 May 2005 Sophisticated signal processing techniques and simple proof-of-principle antenna arrays built from PVC pipe, aluminum foil and copper wire could revolutionize the way NASA obtains data from its Earth observing satellites. If the adaptive array system being studied by NASA and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers ultimately proves feasible, it could dramatically decrease the cost of building and maintaining ground stations, thus enabling the cost-effective construction of many more ground stations. Ultimately, that could make information from the space agency’s Earth-observing satellites more widely and rapidly available. Read more