NASA harnesses RF MEMS for climate assessment

MEMS has enabled a complete phased-array radar to fit on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).  NASA has commissioned the Georgia Institute of Technology with a $2.4 million grant to build the lightweight, low-cost and pint-sized phased array radar to map the Earth's changing ice sheets and snow formations, potentially answering vexing questions about global climate change

by R. Colin Johnson, Contributing Editor