SWOT will help us understand bodies of water and links to climate change with 10x the precision of older satellites
A soon-to-launch NASA satellite will be able to account for much more of the water on our planet without having to extrapolate from geographically limited data sets.said
KaRIn was designed to measure the height of water in freshwater and ocean environments, which NASA said will help it understand changes in the behavior of bodies of water as a result of climate change. It won't just be measuring oceans either. KaRIn and SWOT will also be trained on freshwater bodies, like lakes and rivers, data for which is lacking due to their smaller size.
KaRIn was designed collaboratively by NASA, the French space agency CNES, the Canadian Space Agency and the UK Space Agency.SWOT is scheduled to launch December 15, and will give scientists the first chance to measure water body behavior in a way other than extrapolating from narrow tracks of Earth captured by low-resolution sensors.
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