@inproceedings{3dd2f56bfda540fcbcdb00a5e53223f1,
title = "CYGNSS: NASA Earth venture tropical cyclone mission",
abstract = "The NASA Earth Venture Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) is a spaceborne mission scheduled to launch in October 2016 that is focused on tropical cyclone (TC) inner core process studies. CYGNSS attempts to resolve one of the principle deficiencies with current TC intensity forecasts, which lies in inadequate observations and modeling of the inner core. CYGNSS is specifically designed to address these two limitations by combining the all-weather performance of GNSS bistatic ocean surface scatterometry with the sampling properties of a constellation of satellites. CYGNSS measurements of bistatic radar cross section of the ocean can be directly related to the near surface wind speed, in a manner roughly analogous to that of conventional ocean wind scatterometers. The technique has been demonstrated previously from space by the UK-DMC mission in 2005-6.",
keywords = "Bistatic radar, GNSS-R, Hurricanes, Remote sensing, Small satellites",
author = "Christopher Ruf and Paul Chang and Clarizia, \{Maria Paola\} and Zorana Jelenak and Aaron Ridley and Randall Rose",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 SPIE.; Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XVIII ; Conference date: 22-09-2014 Through 25-09-2014",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1117/12.2071404",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Neeck, \{Steven P.\} and Haruhisa Shimoda and Roland Meynart",
booktitle = "Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XVIII",
address = "United States",
}