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SCIRoCCo

Details

Promotor:Neyt, Xavier
Funding:European Space Agency
Involved staff: Xavier NEYT, Anis EL YOUNCHA, Virginie KUBICA,
Start date:01 Jul 2014
Duration:24 months
Research unit:Radar Signal Processing

Description

The Scatterometer Instrument Competence Centre's (SCIRoCCo) objective is to become a reference center for the international meteorological agencies, meteorological operations centers, and the research and educational community worldwide for the exploitation of the ERS Scatterometer mission data set and of the present and future C-band scatterometer missions data sets. RMA's tasks are to carry out research and development activities in the area of C-band scatterometer inter and cross sensors calibration, processing algorithms for the computation of the radar backscattering, data validation and data quality control, education and outreach.