CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
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Full Name
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Radio Occultation Sounder for the Atmosphere
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Status
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No longer operational
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Instrument Agencies
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ASI , CONAE
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Maturity
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Instrument Type
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Atmospheric temperature and humidity sounders  and Precision orbit
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Geometry
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Occultation
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Instrument Technology
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GNSS radio-occultation receiver
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Sampling
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Sounding
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Data Access
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Constrained Access
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Data Format
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RINEX
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Measurements and Applications
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Climate change studies. High-vertical resolution temperature-humidity sounding for NWP. Space weather.
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Resolution Summary
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300 km (horizontal),
0.5 km (vertical).
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Swath Summary
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N/A (occultation); about 600 soundings/day.
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Accuracy Summary
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Bending angle: 0.5 µ rad
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Waveband Summary
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Around 1600 MHz (L1) and 1200 MHz (L2).
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| MW (~0.1 cm - ~100 cm) |
| L-Band (2 - 1 GHz) |
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Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
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Instrument Missions
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