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CFOSAT Scatterometer (SCAT)

Ku-band scatterometer flown on CFOSAT for sea-surface wind measurement; WMO OSCAR records the instrument as inactive after degradation in 2022.

CFOSAT Scatterometer (SCAT), also recorded as CSCAT, was the rotating fan-beam Ku-band scatterometer flown on CFOSAT for sea-surface vector wind measurement.^[1] The instrument operated at 13.256 GHz with dual co-polarised HH and VV measurements.^[1] Its rotating fan-beam geometry provided a 1000 km swath, with 50 km high-quality data resolution, 10 km basic sampling and incidence angles from 18 to 50 degrees.^[1]^[2] The scatterometer demonstrated radar scatterometry on CFOSAT for ocean wind retrieval.^[1] SCAT is inactive after 30 Nov 2022 because of degradation and stability issues; SWIM remained active on the same mission.^[3]

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carried by CFOSAT

Sources

[1]WMO OSCAR instrument record: CSCATcommunity2026-06-16
[2]AVISO+ CFOSAT SCAT instrument pageagency doc2026-06-16
[3]WMO OSCAR satellite record: CFOSATcommunity2026-06-16
[4]First Results From the Rotating Fan Beam Scatterometer Onboard CFOSATpeer reviewed2026-06-16

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CFOSAT Scatterometer (SCAT). EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/products/component/cfosat-scat (CC BY 4.0)

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@misc{eoatlas:products:component:cfosat-scat,
  title = {CFOSAT Scatterometer (SCAT)},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/products/component/cfosat-scat}
}