The SeaWinds Scatterometer is a Ku-band Earth orbiting remote sensing radar. It has a 1 m dish antenna shared by two beams with respective nadir look angles of 40 and 46 deg, scanning azimuthally to provide greater than 90% daily coverage of the Earth at an altitude of 800 km. The first sensor was launched in 1999 and produces sea surface wind field to 2 m/s accuracy at 25 km resolution. The design and calibration of the SeaWinds radar is described here.


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    Title :

    Design and calibration of the SeaWinds Scatterometer


    Contributors:
    Chialin Wu, (author) / Yong Liu, (author) / Kellogg, K.H. (author) / Pak, K.S. (author) / Glenister, R.L. (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    2672173 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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