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SWOT : Surface Water Ocean Topography

About

Mission objectives:

  • SWOT will combine the concepts of WaTER (Water and Terrestrial Elevation Recovery) and the Hydrosphere Mapper missions into a single one to address the objectives of both land hydrology and oceanography.
Orbit: LEO, SSO

Instruments:

Ka-band wide swath radar
C-band radar


Documents

SWOT Technology Investments
> Overview (.pdf)

Decadal Survey Symposium
> Go to Workshop | SWOT Overview (.pdf)


Related Links

> SWOT at JPL
> SWOT at OSU



SWOT : Surface Water Ocean Topography

SWOT

The SWOT Satellite Mission and its wide-swath altimetry technology is a means of completely covering the world's oceans and freshwater bodies with repeated elevation measurements.










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