CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- SeaWinds
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Full Name
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SeaWinds
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Status
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No longer operational
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Instrument Agencies
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NASA
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Maturity
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Instrument Type
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Scatterometers 
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Geometry
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Conical scanning
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Instrument Technology
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Radar scatterometer
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Sampling
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Imaging
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Data Access
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Open Access
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Data Format
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HDF
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Measurements and Applications
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Measurement of surface wind speed and direction. The SeaWinds antenna on QuikSCAT stopped rotating in November 2009, and the instrument no longer collects ocean wind vector data. However it still provides calibration data for other on-orbit scatterometers, which enables the continuation of a climate-quality wind vector dataset.
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Resolution Summary
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25 km
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Swath Summary
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1600 km
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Accuracy Summary
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Speed: 2 - 3.5 m/s Direction: 20 deg
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Waveband Summary
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Microwave: 13.402 GHz
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| MWIR (~3.0 µm - ~6.0 µm) |
| MW (~0.1 cm - ~100 cm) |
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Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
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Instrument Missions
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