ASCAT Software

Reader for ASCAT SZF files and code to compute the ASCAT Spatial Response Function (SRF)

Available ASCAT Software:

• BYU ASCAT SZF (L1B) reader code (18kB zipped tar file)
  Software for reading ASCAT SZF (L1B) files. Written in C.

• BYU ASCAT parameterized spatial response function (SRF) software (30kB gzipped tar file)

  Software for computing BYU's parametized ASCAT SRF available from the NASA Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder Written in C.

  Computation of the ASCAT SZF (slice) SRF is described in the paper, R.D. Lindsley, C. Anderson, J. Figa-Saldana, and D.G. Long, A Parameterized ASCAT Measurement Spatial Response Function, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 54, No. 8, pp. 4570-4579, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2016.2544835, 2016. (1.5 MB PDF)

While the available software has been tested on a variety of platforms, no claim is made for the correctness or suitability of the code for any purpose. Any use of this code is made at the user's own risk. Source code not otherwise copyrighted may be freely copied and modified as long as (1) original authorship is acknowledged, and (2) code is not distributed for commercial purposes without prior authorization. In publications, please cite "R.D. Lindsley, C. Anderson, J. Figa-Saldana, and D.G. Long, A Parameterized ASCAT Measurement Spatial Response Function, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 54, No. 8, pp. 4570-4579, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2016.2544835, 2016".