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Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) Mission
The Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) Mission is a NASA-sponsored collaborative project between investigators at Brigham Young University (BYU), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), European Space Agency (ESA), and National Ice Center (NIC). The SCP proposal was accepted in February 2000 from proposals to NASA in response to NASA Research Announcement NRA-99-OES-04. SCP products promote global change research by making available research quality data derived from long time-series global, space-based observations, in support of climate-related studies of the Earth's cryosphere and biosphere.
The SCP Mission involves the following primary satellite sensors and their respective data products:
The Scatterometer Pathfinder datasets have the following features:
Microwave radar scatterometers have proven to be applicable over a wide range
of vegetation zones and moisture conditions including wet, dry, and frozen.
The use of SCP observations of
polar ice and tropical vegetation will help
in understanding global climate changes of the Earth as a system.
Local SCP Links NSCAT instrument
data products featured on this CD-ROM
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