Measurements and Applications
Ocean winds, waves, soil moisture, flooding, ice, snow
Full Name
Space GNSS Receiver - Remote Sensing Instrument
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Scatterometers 
Geometry
Nadir-viewing
Instrument Technology
GNSS receiver
Sampling
Sounding
Resolution
20-50 km for diffuse scattering, higher resolution for coherent reflections
[Best Resolution: 500m]
Swath
Tracks sampled up to approx 700 km apart, wider possible with different antenna
[Max Swath: 700 km]
Accuracy
Approx 2 m/s wind speed accuracy (lower winds), target 10% for higher winds
Waveband
L-Band (1575 MHz)
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