Sentences with phrase «on scatterometer»
The OSI SAF team focuses on scatterometer winds (and soon microwave winds), Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and sea Ice Surface Temperature (IST), radiative fluxes: Solar Surface Irradiance (SSI) and Downward Longwave Irradiance (DLI), sea ice concentration, edge, type, emissivity, drift.
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You can find material on scatterometer winds products and software and their use on the Scatterometry Training page.
Not exact matches
Improve sea ice classification based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), scatterometers and passive microwave (PMW) sensors.
A Ku - band (14.3 GHz) scatterometer, NSCAT, was launched by NASA on August 17, 1996.
The team then extrapolated these data over the varying landscape to produce a seamless map, using NASA imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, the QuikScat scatterometer satellite and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
The European Remote - Sensing Satellites (ERS - 1 and ERS - 2), launched by the European Space Agency respectively on July 17, 1991 and April 21, 1995, carry the first satellite - borne C - band (5.3 GHz) Active Microwave Instrument (AMI) capable of measuring, in scatterometer mode, surface wind speeds and directions over the oceans.
2DVAR performs an incremental analysis based on the ambiguous scatterometer wind vector solutions and a model forecast, and selects the most likely solution.
For several years the CERSAT has been providing sea ice maps derived from various scatterometers (microwave radar) on board earth observation satellites (ERS - 1, ERS - 2, ADEOS - 1 or QuikSCAT).
NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) was lofted into space at 7:15 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Saturday (6/19/99) atop a U.S. Air Force Titan II launch vehicle from Space Launch Complex 4 West at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.
The SeaWinds on QuikSCAT mission is a «quick recovery» mission to fill the gap created by the loss of data from the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT), when the satellite it was flying on lost power in June 1997.
The synergy of an active scatterometer and a passive radiometer on the same platform is significant and would improve both the scatterometer vector wind retrievals and the radiometer SST retrievals.
Tested on airborne missions this spring, DopplerScatt is a cousin of QuickSCAT and RapidScat, which used a scatterometer to measure the «roughness» of the ocean surface and determine the direction and intensity of wind.
Some participants noted that the currently operating ASCAT scatterometer on MetOp will not maintain the CDR established by QuikSCAT, primarily because of sampling inadequacy; the combined coverage of the two parallel measurement swaths of ASCAT is only approximately 55 percent that of QuikSCAT.