NSCAT Level 1.7 SDR, Sigma-0 Cells
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description: The NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) Level 1.7 ocean sigma-0 referenced to 50 km wind vector cells (WVC) contains daily backscatter (sigma-0) data from ascending and descending passes. Rain flagging information is not included. Data is flagged where measurements are either missing, ambiguous, or contaminated by land/sea ice. This is the most up-to-date version, which designates the final phase of calibration, validation and science data processing, which was completed in November of 1998, on behalf of the JPL NSCAT Project; re-processing had only minor impacts on the Level 1.7 data.
issued: 2009-06-15
language: {en-US}
modified: 2017-04-28
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keyword: amerigeo
keyword: amerigeoss
keyword: ckan
keyword: cryosphere
keyword: earth-science
keyword: geo
keyword: geoss
keyword: national
keyword: north-america
keyword: radar
keyword: sea-ice
keyword: spectral-engineering
keyword: united-states
theme: {NSCAT
theme: geospatial}

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