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Tradeoffs in the Design of a Spaceborne Scanning Pencil Beam Scatterometer: Application to Sea Winds

Tradeoffs in the Design of a Spaceborne Scanning Pencil Beam Scatterometer: Application to Sea Winds

Spencer, M. W.; Wu, C.; Long, D. G.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/27394
Date: 1996

Abstract:

SeaWinds is a spaceborne scatterometer to be flown on the second Japanese Advanced Earth Observation Satellite (ADEOS-II) in 1999. An important international element of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS), SeaWinds is an advanced follow-on to the NASA scatterometer (NSCAT) on the first ADEOS platform. Unlike previous operational spaceborne scatterometer systems, SeaWinds employs a scanning pencil-beam antenna rather than a fan-beam antenna, making the instrument more compact and yielding greater ocean coverage.

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