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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Electronically Scanning Thinned-Array Radiometer | ESTAR | David Levine (PI) | NASA GSFC | P-3 Orion - WFF | Radiometer | Soil Moisture, Ocean Salinity | ||||||||
GPS Remote Sensing Instrument | GPSRS | Michael Grant (PI) | NASA LaRC | P-3 Orion - WFF | Soil Moisture | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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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 Scanning Radiometer - C/X Band | PSR/CX | Al Gasiewski (PI) | CU Boulder | DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Proteus, WB-57 - JSC | Radiometer | Brightness Temperature, Soil Moisture, Sea Ice Surface Elevation | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 5.8-6.2 GHz; 6.3-6.7 GHz; 6.75-7.1 GHz; 7.15-7.5 GHz; 4 channels at 10.6-10.8 GHz | |||||
Radar Synthetic Aperture Thinned Array Radiometer - Active | RadSTAR-A | Peter Hillebrand (PI) | NASA GSFC | P-3 Orion - WFF | Radiometer | Soil Moisture | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Two-Dimensional Electronically Scanning Thinned-Array Radiometer | 2D-STAR | David Levine (PI) | NASA GSFC | P-3 Orion - WFF | Radiometer | Soil Moisture, Ocean Salinity | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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