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Advanced Scatterometer Level 1B - ASCAT is a real aperture radar operating at 5.255 GHz (C-band) and using vertically polarized antennae. It transmits a long pulse with Linear Frequency Modulation ("chirp"). Ground echoes are received by the instrument and, after de-chirping, the backscattered signal is spectrally analyzed and detected. In the power spectrum, frequency can be mapped into slant range provided the chirp rate and the Doppler frequency are known. The above processing is in effect a pulse compression, which provides range resolution.

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