Title | Acronym | Contact Person | Center | Aircraft | Type | Measurements | Measurement Range | Measurement Instrument Pointing | Measurement Frequency | Measurement Swath Width | Measurement Horizontal Resolution | Measurement Vertical Resolution | Measurement Wavelengths | Measurement Notes |
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Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar | AIRSAR | Yunling Lou (PI) | JPL | DC-8 - AFRC | Radar | Radar backscatter | Ground
| Downwards pointing but not directly downwards (angles: 20-50)
| 10 m (at 8 km)
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Passive Active L- and S-band Sensor | PALS | Sid Misra (PI) | JPL | C-130H - WFF, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC, DC-8 - AFRC | Radar, Scatterometer, Radiometer | Radar backscatter, Ocean Salinity, Soil Moisture | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 1.26 GHz; 1.413 GHz | scatterometer | ||||
Polarimetric Ku-Band Scatterometer | PolSCAT | Steven J Dinardo (PI) | JPL | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC | Radar, Scatterometer | Radar backscatter | Ground
| Conical scanning
| 13.95 GHz |