CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- AMI/Scatterometer
-
|
|
Full Name
|
Active Microwave Instrumentation. Wind mode
|
Status
|
No longer operational
|
|
Instrument Agencies
|
ESA
|
Maturity
|
|
|
Instrument Type
|
Scatterometers 
|
Geometry
|
Side-looking
|
|
Instrument Technology
|
Radar scatterometer
|
Sampling
|
Imaging
|
|
Data Access
|
Open Access
|
Data Format
|
|
|
|
Measurements and Applications
|
Measurements of wind fields at the ocean surface, wind direction (range 0 - 360 deg), wind speed (range 1 - 30 m/s).
|
|
|
Resolution Summary
|
Cells of 50 x 50 km at 25 km intervals
|
|
Swath Summary
|
500 km
|
|
Accuracy Summary
|
Sea surface wind speed: 3 m/s, Sea ice type: 2 classes
|
|
Waveband Summary
|
Microwave: 5.3 GHz (C-band), VV polarisation
|
|
|
| MW (~0.1 cm - ~100 cm) |
| C-Band (8 - 4 GHz) |
|
|
Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
|
|
|
|
Instrument Missions
|
|
|