Overview of the CFOSAT mission

Danièle Hauser (1) , Dong Xiaolong (2) , Lotfi Aouf (3) , Céline Tison (4) , Patrick Castillan (4)

1 ESTER - LATMOS
2 Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing
3 CNRM - Centre national de recherches météorologiques
4 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]

The Chinese and French Space Agencies are jointly preparing an innovative mission, CFOSAT (China France Oceanography Satellite) devoted to the monitoring of the ocean surface and its related science and applications. This paper gives an overview of the scientific objectives, the mission and instrument characteristics, the expected data products and their performance.

Keywords: CFOSAT; satellite; radar; surface ocean waves; surface ocean wind; scatterometer

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]; Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Ocean, Atmosphere; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Signal and Image processing

Danièle Hauser, Dong Xiaolong, Lotfi Aouf, Céline Tison, Patrick Castillan. Overview of the CFOSAT mission. 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Jul 2016, Beijing, China. pp.5789 - 5792, ⟨10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730512⟩. ⟨insu-01406008⟩