Aquarius is an L-band instrument designed to measure sea surface salinity from space. The instrument was launched in 2011 and data acquisition ended in June 2015 when control of the spacecraft was lost. Aquarius produced global maps of salinity with accuracy of 0.2 psu (Practical Salinity Unit) and special resolution of 150 kilometers as well as other products such as global maps of RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) and soil moisture. The mission will formally end December 2017.
Status of Remote Sensing of Salinity by Aquarius
General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), 2017 ; 2017 ; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2017-08-19
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English
NTRS | 2011
|NTIS | 2011
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1935
Bridging the Gap between Surface Salinity Satellites: SMOS and Aquarius
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2010
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