Sentences with phrase «scatterometer mission»
The second scenario, preferred by many participants, consists of a next - generation synthetic - aperture - radar - based scatterometer mission referred to in the Earth science decadal survey as XOVWM.
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Both consist of a dedicated free - flyer scatterometer mission at the nearest possible opportunity in order to avoid, or at least minimize, a gap in the ocean surface vector winds CDR.
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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 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.
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.