Measurements and Applications
Measures sea-surface wind vector.
Full Name
Wind Radar
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Scatterometers 
Geometry
Conical scanning
Instrument Technology
Radar scatterometer
Sampling
Other
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
L-1 data: HDF 5.0
Resolution
25 × 0.5km (C band), 10 × 0.5km (Ku band)
[Best Resolution: 10000m]
Swath
Conical scanning with incidence angles 36-45° (C-band) and 37-43° (Ku-band). Swath > 1200 km.
[Max Swath: 1200 km]
| Ku-Band (12.5 to 18 GHz) |
| C-Band (8 - 4 GHz) |
FY-3E - FY-3E Polar-orbiting Meteorological Satellite (2021 - 2027) |
FY-3J - FY-3J Polar-orbiting Meteorological Satellite (2026 - 2034) |