Sentences with phrase «satellite scatterometers»
The satellite data come from the European Remote Sensing satellite scatterometers (ERS - 1 and ERS - 2), NASA scatterometers (NSCAT and Seawinds onboard ADEOS - 1 and QuikScat respectively), and several defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) radiometers (Special Sensor Microwave / Imager [SSM / I] F10 - F15).
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The remotely sensed winds and latent heat fluxes are mainly derived from the scatterometers onboard the European Remote Sensing Satellites (ERS - 1 and ERS - 2), NASA scatterometer (NSCAT) onboard ADEOS - 1, Seawinds scatterometer onboard QuikSCAT, and from the radiometers onboard the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (F10, F11, F13, F14, and F15).
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.
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).
The researchers compared the GNSS - R satellite measurements with data from other sources, including tropical cyclone best track data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information; two climate reanalysis products; and a spaceborne scatterometer, a tool that uses microwave radar to measure winds near the surface of the ocean.
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.