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ABoVE: AirSWOT Ka-band Radar over Surface Waters of Alaska and Canada, 2017

Overview

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1646
Version1
Project
Published2019-03-29
Updated2019-03-29
Usage222 downloads
Citations2 publications cited this dataset

Description

AirSWOT is an airborne calibration and validation instrument for the upcoming Surface Water Topography Mission (SWOT) satellite. AirSWOT is capable of producing high resolution digital elevation models over land and water bodies. This dataset provides AirSWOT Ka-band (35.75 GHz) radar data products collected from an airborne platform over parts of Alaska and Canada during the period 2017-07-09 to 2017-08-17. Flights targeted specific surface water features, including rivers, lakes, ponds, and wetlands in the ABoVE domain. The radar data include six products: elevation (above the WGS84 ellipsoid), incidence angle, magnitude (backscatter), interferometric correlation (coherence), DHDPHI (incidence angle dependent height sensitivity), and error (estimated height random error, 1-sigma standard deviation). The flight lines were selected to span a full spectrum of permafrost conditions (permafrost-free to continuous permafrost, low to high ground ice content), ecosystems, climatic regions, topographic relief, and geological substrates across the ABoVE domain to investigate surface water responses to thawing permafrost and spatial and temporal variability in terrestrial water storage by measuring elevation and extent of surface waters. The data are provided in two forms: 1) the original output (outer-swath products only) at 3.6 m2 resolution in UTM coordinates from the AirSWOT processing group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and 2) the ABoVE Projection at 3.6 m2 resolution, clipped to the ABoVE reference grid tiles using the C grid.

Science Keywords

  • TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE
  • SURFACE WATER
  • SURFACE WATER FEATURES
  • LAKES/RESERVOIRS
  • TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE
  • SURFACE WATER
  • SURFACE WATER FEATURES
  • RIVERS/STREAMS
  • TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE
  • SURFACE WATER
  • SURFACE WATER FEATURES
  • WETLANDS
  • SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING
  • RADAR
  • RADAR BACKSCATTER
  • LAND SURFACE
  • TOPOGRAPHY
  • TERRAIN ELEVATION

Data Use and Citation

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Fayne, J.V., L.C. Smith, L.H. Pitcher, and T.M. Pavelsky. 2019. ABoVE: AirSWOT Ka-band Radar over Surface Waters of Alaska and Canada, 2017. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1646

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  • AirSWOT_Radar_TileIndex.kmz
  • ABoVE_AirSWOT_Radar_Data.pdf