The SWIM instrument, a wave scatterometer on CFOSAT mission

Thomas Grelier (1) , Thierry Amiot (1) , Céline Tison (1) , Lauriane Delaye (2) , Danièle Hauser (2) , Patrick Castillan (1)

1 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]
2 ESTER - LATMOS

SWIM is part of the CFOSAT satellite mission payload. It is designed for the measurement of directional ocean wave spectra. It is a Ku-band real-aperture radar with 6 rotating fan-beams pointing near nadir. The main characteristics of the instrument, data, products are presented in this paper, as well as performances estimated from simulations.

Domains: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]; Oceanography; Signal and Image processing

Thomas Grelier, Thierry Amiot, Céline Tison, Lauriane Delaye, Danièle Hauser, et al.. The SWIM instrument, a wave scatterometer on CFOSAT mission. 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Jul 2016, Beijing, China. pp.5793 - 5796, ⟨10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730513⟩. ⟨insu-01405899⟩