Sentences with phrase «scatterometer instrument»
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Last September, the Japanese government launched the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite, which included among its instruments the NASA Scatterometer, or NSCAT.
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The improved predictions are largely due to one particular instrument aboard ERS - 1, the microwave scatterometer, which deduces the speed of the wind at sea level by measuring the roughness of the sea's surface.
The other Airbus - built instrument, the «Advanced Scatterometer» (ASCAT) is an active radar instrument which measures wind speed and direction over the open sea.
The European Space Agency ERS - 1 C - band VV - polarization instrument (AMI) offers the unique ability to combine interlaced scatterometer and SAR wave modes.
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.
The ASCAT scatterometer is an active instrument; however, it does not provide the wide swath coverage or resolution afforded by QuikSCAT.