Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2018-12-17 to 2022-12-16
Current total value of award: $859582
Description: THIS PROJECT IS TO UPDATE AND EXTEND THE OCEAN VECTOR WIND CLIMATE DATA RECORD.  IT WILL INCLUDE UPDATES TO VERSION 8 OF THE SENSOR-SPECIFIC CDRS FOR QUIKSCAT, WINDSAT, AND ASCAT-A WHILE ALSO INCLUDING EXTENSIONS TO ASCAT-B, RAPIDSCAT AND SCATSAT-1.  EFFORTS WILL ALSO BE MADE TO IMPROVE THE TUNING/CALIBRATION OF GMFS THROUGH INCLUSION OF SST-DEPENDENCE AT KU-BAND, HIGH-WIND SPEED CALIBRATION THROUGH USE OF SMAP, AND CORRECTIONS RELATED TO RAINFALL.  EXTENSIVE INTERCALIBRATION OF ALL SENSOR-SPECIFIC CDRS IS ALSO TO BE UNDERTAKEN.  SCIENCE ANALYSES WILL BE PERFORMED WITH RESPECT TO DIURNAL CYCLE VARIABILITY THROUGH LEVERAGING THE CONSTELLATION OF SCATTEROMETERS AND RADIOMETERS.