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3 October 2006 Aquarius/SAC-D mission overview
Amit Sen, Yunjin Kim, Daniel Caruso, Gary Lagerloef, Raul Colomb, Simon Yueh, David Le Vine
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Aquarius/SAC-D is a cooperative international mission developed between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of United States of America (USA) and the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE) of Argentina. The overall mission objective is to contribute to the understanding of the total Earth system and the consequences of the natural and man-made changes in the environment of the planet. Major themes are: ocean surface salinity, carbon, water cycle, geo-hazards, and cryosphere.
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Amit Sen, Yunjin Kim, Daniel Caruso, Gary Lagerloef, Raul Colomb, Simon Yueh, and David Le Vine "Aquarius/SAC-D mission overview", Proc. SPIE 6361, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites X, 63610I (3 October 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.691981
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KEYWORDS
Observatories

Temperature metrology

Space operations

Climatology

Environmental sensing

Radiometry

Aerospace engineering

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