Sentences with phrase «resolution scatterometer»

Not exact matches

The storm - chasing aircraft's new scatterometer — a microwave radar sensor that measures the reflection (or scattering effect) produced while scanning the surface of the Earth — can see inside the storm with high resolution, something akin to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.

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.

New gridded daily wind fields from Metop / ASCAT scatterometer retrievals are produced in near real - time over global ocean with a spatial resolution of 0.25 °.

QuikSCAT measurements are also limited to a spatial resolution of 12.5 km and are not routinely made closer than about 30 km from land.26 Many in the microwave breakout group argued that high priority should be given to a sustained, more capable, next - generation scatterometer program that can meet these requirements while at the same time continuing the ocean surface vector winds CDR established by QuikSCAT.

The ASCAT scatterometer is an active instrument; however, it does not provide the wide swath coverage or resolution afforded by QuikSCAT.