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ScatSat-1 — India's ocean-wind satellite

ScatSat-1 ocean-surface winds
atmosphere ISRO ISRO MOSDAC active
In plain English

What it measures. Wind speed and direction at the ocean surface across the Indian Ocean, day and night, through cloud.

How it's made. An ISRO scatterometer satellite that bounces radar off the sea to infer the winds shaping it.

How & where you'd use it. Cyclone track and intensity forecasting in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea, and monsoon prediction. Via ISRO MOSDAC (registration).

What's measured

ocean windsscatterometercycloneoceanISROwindmonsoon

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2016-09-26 → ongoing
  • Spatial extent68, 6, 98, 37

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

ISRO Ku-band scatterometer measuring ocean-surface wind speed and direction — vital for cyclone tracking and monsoon forecasting over the Indian Ocean. Via ISRO MOSDAC (registration).

Get the data

scatsat-1_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="scatsat-1",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from ISRO MOSDAC
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.