A diagram illustrating the swaths of data that SWOT will collect.
Source: Yeosang Yoon with images from NASA
Published: December 28, 2015

A diagram illustrating the swaths of data that SWOT will collect. The interferometer will produce two parallel tracks, with a Nadir track from a traditional altimeter in the gap between the swaths. The overall width of the swaths will be approximately 120 km.

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