Title :
Aquarius Mission Technical Overview
Author :
Le Vine, D.M. ; Lagerloef, G.S.E. ; Yueh, S. ; Pellerano, F. ; Dinnat, E. ; Wentz, F.
Author_Institution :
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
fDate :
July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006
Abstract :
Aquarius is an L-band microwave instrument being developed to map the surface salinity field of the oceans from space. It is part of the Aquarius/SAC-D mission, a partnership between the USA (NASA) and Argentina (CONAE) with launch scheduled for early in 2009. The primary science objective of this mission is to monitor the seasonal and interannual variation of the large scale features of the surface salinity field in the open ocean with a spatial resolution of 150 km and a retrieval accuracy of 0.2 psu globally on a monthly basis.
Keywords :
oceanography; remote sensing; AD 2009; Aquarius L-band microwave instrument; Aquarius-SAC-D mission; Argentina; CONAE; NASA; USA; interannual variation; ocean surface salinity field mapping; seasonal variation; Feeds; Instruments; L-band; NASA; Oceans; Propulsion; Radar measurements; Radiometry; Sea surface; Spaceborne radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9510-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2006.434
