ASCAT

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Acronym	Definition
ASCAT	Automated Steel Cleanliness Analysis Tool (production quality project)
ASCAT	Advanced Scatterometer
ASCAT	Adult Social Care Access Team (UK)
ASCAT	Association Internationale Éditors de Catalogues de Timbres-Poste (French: International Association of Stamp Catalogue Publishers)
ASCAT	Anti-Submarine Classification Analysis Test (US DoD)
ASCAT	Anti-SAM Combat Assistance Team (US DoD Vietnam era unit)

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8), as detected by the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT), a six-beam spaceborne radar instrument designed to measure wind fields over the oceans (Wilson et al.

DRIHM(2US): An e-Science Environment for Hydrometeorological Research on High-Impact Weather Events

2010), the European Space Agency Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT; C band, 5.2 GHz, 5.8 cm; Figa-Saldana et al.

Capability of the SMAP mission to measure ocean surface winds in storms: The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radiometer is able to measure wind speeds up to 65 m [s.sup.-1] without being affected by rain

Many other promising satellites have been launched to acquire global SM contents, such as the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT), Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2), and Fengyun [40-48].

Development and Assessment of the Sand Dust Prediction Model by Utilizing Microwave-Based Satellite Soil Moisture and Reanalysis Datasets in East Asian Desert Areas

These truth data include numerical model output parameters, GPS dropsondes, other satellite data [e.g., Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT), Ocean Satellite (Oceansat)-2 Scatterometer (OSCAT), wind-measuring satellite system (WindSat), Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-2 (AMSR2)], and aircraft-based measurements.

New ocean winds satellite mission to probe hurricanes and tropical convection: the CYGNSS constellation of eight satellites, scheduled to launch in 2016, will measure hurricane-force ocean-surface wind speed in the presence of precipitation encountered in the inner core of hurricanes

In our case, we merged the Ku-band dB from Quick Scatterometer (QuickSCAT) (2000-09) and C-band dB from Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) (2009-present) using the quantile matching approach.

A drought monitoring and forecasting system for sub-Sahara African water resources and food security: the development and implementation of a drought monitoring and seasonal hydrological forecast system for sub-Saharan Africa contributes to building capacity through technology and knowledge transfer

The wind archives available from scatterometer satellites such as the Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) and Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) provide important global data.

Ocean wind speed climatology from spaceborne SAR imagery: the authors discuss the potential generation of a > 10-yr archive of Radarsat-I synthetic aperture radar wind speed data and its use to compute wind speed climatologies