Building Pathways to Societal Applications of the Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) Satellite Mission

摘要

SWOT IS A RESEARCH SATELLITE MISSION (Fig. 1), planned for launch in 2021, and developed jointly by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Centre for National D'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) of France, with participation from the Canadian and UK space agencies. The SWOT mission will serve both the hydrology and oceanography communities by providing the first global survey of Earth's surface waters including rivers, reservoirs, lakes, and wetlands, as well as unprecedented detail in the topography of the ocean surface.