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Education/Outreach
On this page you will find a list of SWOT Educational/Outreach related items, as well as links to relevant EPO sites.
Using NASA Satellites to Track Water - June 2010
SWOT Scientist, Faisal Hossain, a professor at the Tennessee Technological University, promotes SWOT science and education in a NASA Earth Explorer profile.
 SWOT Banner in display area at Turtle Bay Exploration Center during hardware tests. This SWOT “Bannerbug” exhibit was created for display during hardware tests conducted during an eleven-day period in October 2008. To support ongoing radar instrument research, scientists and engineers made radar scattering measurements in different parts of the Sacramento river. The objective of the research is to provide validating data for the SWOT Ka-Band Radar Interferometer (KaRIN) instrument. The antenna used for the tests was adapted from the Mars Science Laboratory Ka-band radar.
Data were collected from the Diestelhorst and Sundial bridges in Redding, California. In addition to the data collection itself, the campaign generated significant local interest with two TV news reports, a newspaper article, an interview with local National Public Radio (conducted with Doug Alsdorf, OSU) and a science seminar given by Ernesto Rodriguez at the Turtle Bay Science museum which is adjacent to the Sundial bridge. The exhibit remained on display at the museum throughout the tests.
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