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- [Source: NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey Studies, http://decadal.gsfc.nasa.gov/swot.html ]
Mission objectives:
* SWOT will combine the concepts of WaTER (Water and Terrestrial Elevation Recovery) and the Hydrosphere Mapper missions into a single one to address the objectives of both land hydrology and oceanography. Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: SWOT Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: NASA Decadal Survey Short_Name: SWOT Long_Name: Surface Water Ocean Topography End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Sun-Synchronous End_Group Creation_Date: 2010-05-07 Online_Resource: http://decadal.gsfc.nasa.gov/swot.html Sample_Image: http://decadal.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/missions/swot1.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Primary_Sponsor: USA/NASA End_Group End_Group
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