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Instruments > Earth Remote Sensing Instruments > Active Remote Sensing > Scatterometers > AQUARIUS_SCATTEROMETER

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AQUARIUS_SCATTEROMETER  

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  • The Aquarius Scatterometer : an active system for measuring surface roughness for sea-surface brightness temperature correction The Aquarius scatterometer is a total-power L-band radar system for estimating ocean surface roughness. Its measurements will enable the removal of wind effects from the Aquarius radiometer ocean-surface brightness temperature measurements being used to retrieve ocean salinity. The Aquarius scatterometer is a relatively simple, low-spatial resolution power-detecting radar, without ranging capability. But to meet its science requirement, it must be very stable, with repeatability on the order of 0.1 dB over several days, and calibrated accuracy to this level over several months. Data from this instrument over land as well as ocean areas will be available for a variety of geophysical applications. IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, Denver, Colorado, July 31- August 4, 2006. Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: AQUARIUS_SCATTEROMETER Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Earth Remote Sensing Instruments Instrument_Class: Active Remote Sensing Instrument_Type: Scatterometers Short_Name: AQUARIUS_SCATTEROMETER Long_Name: Aquarius Scatterometer End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: AQUARIUS_SAC-D End_Group Online_Resource: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aquarius/main/index.html Creation_Date: 2013-03-29 Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Start_Date: 2011-08-25 Instrument_Owner: NASA Instrument_Owner: CONAE End_Group End_Group (en)

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  • 2013-03-28 16:18:31.0 [mpmorahan] Insert Concept add broader relation (AQUARIUS_SCATTEROMETER [799026db-3706-4335-a5ca-30fb9b34b845,83239] - Scatterometers [563f30c8-43f8-48be-b649-4b548f877fa4,75319]);

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