Development and applications of STARRS: a next generation airborne salinity imager An updated version of a paper originally presented at Oceans from Space 'Venice 2000' Symposium , Venice, Italy, 9-13 October 2000.

A new generation of airborne salinity imager, the Salinity Temperature and Roughness Remote Scanner (STARRS), has been designed and is currently under construction with delivery expected shortly. With both significantly lower noise levels and enhanced capability to measure secondary parameters, including sea surface temperature and roughness, STARRS will serve as both an operational survey tool and as a test-bed for refinement of retrieval algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]