The Wideband Instrument for Snow Measurements (WISM) instrument was developed to address a remote sensing need to measure surface snowfall and its associated snow water equivalent. WISM consists of two airborne instruments: a dual-frequency (X and Ku) Synthetic Aperture Radar and a dual-frequency (X and Ka) radiometer with a shared common antenna aperture between the two.
Instrument Details
- Spectrometer/Radiometer
- Earth Science > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Snow Water EquivalentEarth Science > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Solid Precipitation > Snow
- Land Surface
- Variable
- Variable
- 8-40 GHz
- Currently unavailble
- https://earthzine.org/wideband-sensor-technologies-for-measuring-surface-snow/
- https://esto.nasa.gov/forums/estf2015/presentations/Durham_S5P3_ESTF2015.pdf
- https://science.nasa.gov/technology/technology-highlights/measuring-snow-manage-water-resources
- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20160005282/downloads/20160005282.pdf
- https://techport.nasa.gov/view/92988
Tim Durham
This data will be added in future versions
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
NASA
Unpublished
 DeHavilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 18 Campaigns · 70 Instruments |  SnowEx 2016—2023 Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Alaska Ongoing 4 Deployments · 26 Data Products
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