Doppler Scatterometry (DopplerScatt) is an airborne Ka-band (35.75 GHz) scatterometer developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It uses a pencil-beam mechanical scanning antenna to measure surface radar cross-sections and Doppler velocities. These measurements are used to determine the ocean surface winds and currents at a spatial resolution of 200 m. DopplerScatt has a nominal swath width of 25 km, a range resolution of 15-30 m, and a scan rate of 12.5 rpm.
Instrument Details
- Scatterometer
- Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Circulation > Ocean CurrentsEarth Science > Oceans > Ocean WindsEarth Science > Spectral/engineering > Radar > Doppler VelocityEarth Science > Oceans > Ocean Winds > Surface WindsEarth Science > Spectral/engineering > Radar > Radar Backscatter
- Full Column Profile, Sea/Ocean/Water Surface
- 12.5 rpm
- 200 m
- 35.75 GHz
- https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12061021
Dragana Perkovic-Martin
Dragana Perkovic-Martin
JPL
NASA
 Beechcraft B-200 King Air 30 Campaigns · 73 Instruments |  Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment 2021—2023 Centered approximately 300 km offshore of San Francisco, California, USA 3 Deployments · 33 Data Products
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