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 Expendable Conductivity Temperature Depth Probe | AXCTD | Dan S. Jacob (PI) | NASA GSFC | P-3 Orion - WFF | Dropsonde | Ocean Salinity, Temperature | In situ
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Electronically Scanning Thinned-Array Radiometer | ESTAR | David Levine (PI) | NASA GSFC | P-3 Orion - WFF | Radiometer | Soil Moisture, Ocean Salinity | ||||||||
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 | ||||
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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