CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- COWVR
-
|
|
Full Name
|
Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer
|
Status
|
Operational
|
|
Instrument Agencies
|
USSF , NASA
|
Maturity
|
|
|
Instrument Type
|
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave) 
|
Geometry
|
TBD
|
|
Instrument Technology
|
Multi-purpose imaging MW radiometer
|
Sampling
|
TBD
|
|
Data Access
|
|
Data Format
|
|
|
|
Measurements and Applications
|
Hosted on the ISS, COWVR measures the direction and speed of winds at the ocean surface
|
|
|
Resolution Summary
|
|
|
Swath Summary
|
|
|
Accuracy Summary
|
|
|
Waveband Summary
|
|
|
|
|
|
Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
|
|
|
|
Instrument Missions
|
|
|