FFSCAT Mission: Preliminary Results and Ice Products Validation with Mosaic Campaign Data

FSSCAT mission was the 2017 ESA Sentinel Small Satellite (S^3) Challenge winner, and the Copernicus masters competition overall winner, and it will be launched in late March 2020. FSSCAT data will provide soil moisture data, sea ice cover and coarse resolution sea ice thickness. FSSCat will be launc...

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Main Authors: Camps, A., Munoz-Martin, J.F., Perez, A., Cardellach, E., Ribo, S., Pastena, M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Arctic
Climate change
GNSS-R
Ice
Instruments
Microwave FET integrated circuits
Microwave integrated circuits
Microwave radiometry
Payloads
Sea ice
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Summary:FSSCAT mission was the 2017 ESA Sentinel Small Satellite (S^3) Challenge winner, and the Copernicus masters competition overall winner, and it will be launched in late March 2020. FSSCAT data will provide soil moisture data, sea ice cover and coarse resolution sea ice thickness. FSSCat will be launched for Kourou Space port on June 18 th , 2020, 10:51 PM local time. MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) campaign is a one-year long field experiment to study the climate system and the impact of the climate change in the Arctic sea. GNSS-R data from the second leg has been received recently. At the conference the first results of the FMPL-2 payload (combined GNSS-R and microwave radiometer instrument) on board FSSCat will be presented. Preliminary results on the PYCARO-2 GNSS-R instrument in MOSAIC, and model results fed with in-situ auxiliary data are presented in this paper.
ISSN:2153-7003
DOI:10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324355