Status of remote sensing of salinity by aquarius

摘要

Aquarius is an L-band instrument designed to measure sea surface salinity from space. The instrument was launched in 2011 and data acquisition ended in June 2015 when control of the spacecraft was lost. Aquarius produced global maps of salinity with accuracy of 0.2 psu and special resolution of 150 km as well as other products such as global maps of RFI and soil moisture. The mission will formally end December 2017.