National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents Preface
Adaptive Optics Communications Performance Analysis
M. Srinivasan, V. Vilnrotter, M. Troy, and K. Wilson
Discrete-Time Demodulator Architectures for Free-Space Broadband Optical Pulse-Position Modulation
A. A. Gray and C. Lee
Amplitude Scintillation due to Atmospheric Turbulence for the Deep Space Network Ka-Band Downlink
C. Ho and A. Wheelon
Power Spectrum of Atmospheric Scintillation for the Deep Space Network Goldstone Ka-Band Downlink
C. Ho and A. Wheelon
Design and Performance of a Miniature Radar L-Band Transceiver
D. McWatters, D. Price, and W. Edelstein
Using Trained Pixel Classifiers to Select Images of Interest
D. Mazzoni, K. Wagstaff, and R. Castano
Measurements and Calibration of Tropospheric Delay at Goldstone from the Cassini Media Calibration System
S. J. Keihm, A. Tanner, and H. Rosenberger
Antenna Cluster for Spacecraft High Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) Applications
R. C. Clauss, R. B. Lovick, N. R. Mysoor, and J. Zitzelberger
Antenna Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) Controllers: Properties, Limits of Performance, and Tuning Procedure
W. Gawronski
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