The Aquarius scatterometer is a total-power L-band radar system for estimating ocean surface roughness. Its measurements will enable the removal of wind ...

Jan 10, 2024 · The Aquarius scatterometer is a total-power L-band radar system for estimating ocean surface roughness. Its measurements will enable the ...

The Aquarius scatterometer is a total-power L-band radar system for estimating ocean surface roughness. Its measurements will enable the removal of wind ...

The scatterometer performance requirements flow from the needed sea-surface brightness temperature accuracy via a model function incorporating roughness, ...

Nov 27, 2017 · Other instrumentation onboard includes a scatterometer providing coincident measurements used in sea surface roughness corrections.

A scatterometer operating at 1.26 GHz measures ocean backscatter in each footprint that is used for surface roughness corrections in the estimation of salinity.

Aquarius is a combined passive/active L-band microwave instrument developed to map the salinity field at the surface of the ocean from space.

the scatterometer is to measure the ocean roughness backscatter from which surface wind speed and a radiometric sea surface roughness correction is derived.

The Aquarius instrument being prepared for the Aquarius/SAC-D mission will provide global maps of sea surface salinity from space.

The measurement principle is based on the response of the L-band (1.413 GHz) sea surface brightness temperatures to sea surface salinity. To achieve the ...