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The experimental oceanographic satellite Seasat-A
- Source :
- Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 13:393-404
- Publication Year :
- 1978
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1978.
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Abstract
- The experimental Seasat-A satellite, scheduled for launch in 1978, is designed to provide measurements of sea-surface temperature, surface wind speed and direction, sea state and directional wave spectra. The instrument package of the satellite includes a highly precise radar altimeter, a wind-field scatterometer, a synthetic-aperture imaging radar, a scanning multifrequency microwave radiometer and a radiometer operating in the visual and infrared. Tides, currents and storm surges on the marine geoid may be monitored through analysis of range information from the radar altimeter and a satellite ephemeris; sea-ice reconnaissance is also planned.
- Subjects :
- Atmospheric Science
Radiometer
Microwave radiometer
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Scatterometer
Space-based radar
Physics::Geophysics
law.invention
Radar altimeter
law
Radar imaging
Physics::Space Physics
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Altimeter
Radar
Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Geology
Remote sensing
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15731472 and 00068314
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Boundary-Layer Meteorology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2632c6bc5891fd5e142418c883e34439