Description
This product contains twice-daily radar backscatter data collected at 14.6 GHz for horizontal-horizontal and vertical-vertical receive radar channels from the SeaSat-A satellite scatterometer (SASS) sensor. Data are available on the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, and Temperate EASE-Grid 2.0 projections as either 25 km or 3.125 km resolution grids. The data set uses the drop-in-the bucket gridding (GRD) and Scatterometer Image Reconstruction (SIR) algorithms to process the individual swath-based data into twice-daily morning and evening images. The GRD algorithm produces SAR images (high-resolution) on a 25 km grid and the SIR algorithm produces slice and footprint images (both lower-resolution) on a 3.125 km grid, provided at 8-,16-, 32-day imaging intervals. The data coverage is global from 7 July 1978 through 10 Oct 1978.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
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| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Provides access to data, documentation, tools, citation information, support, and other resources. | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset | HTML | Direct download via HTTPS protocol. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset | HTML | Search and filter data files using a map-based interface | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through Earthdata Search | HTML | NASA's newest search and order tool for subsetting, reprojecting, and reformatting data. | Open resource |