CYGNSS: NASA Earth Venture Tropical Cyclone Mission

Christopher Ruf; Paul Chang; Maria Paola Clarizia; Zorana Jelenak; Aaron Ridley; Randall Rose

doi:10.1117/12.2071404

21 October 2014 CYGNSS: NASA Earth Venture Tropical Cyclone Mission

Christopher Ruf, Paul Chang, Maria Paola Clarizia, Zorana Jelenak, Aaron Ridley, Randall Rose

Proceedings Volume 9241, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XVIII; 924109 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2071404
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The NASA Earth Venture Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) is a spaceborne mission scheduled to launch in October 2016 that is focused on tropical cyclone (TC) inner core process studies. CYGNSS attempts to resolve one of the principle deficiencies with current TC intensity forecasts, which lies in inadequate observations and modeling of the inner core. CYGNSS is specifically designed to address these two limitations by combining the all-weather performance of GNSS bistatic ocean surface scatterometry with the sampling properties of a constellation of satellites. CYGNSS measurements of bistatic radar cross section of the ocean can be directly related to the near surface wind speed, in a manner roughly analogous to that of conventional ocean wind scatterometers. The technique has been demonstrated previously from space by the UK-DMC mission in 2005-6.

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Christopher Ruf, Paul Chang, Maria Paola Clarizia, Zorana Jelenak, Aaron Ridley, and Randall Rose "CYGNSS: NASA Earth Venture Tropical Cyclone Mission", Proc. SPIE 9241, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XVIII, 924109 (21 October 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2071404

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