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Seasat was the first Earth-orbiting satellite designed for remote sensing of the Earth's oceans and had on board one of the first spaceborne synthetic-aperture...

the so-called geocenter coordinates. Example: LAGEOS Satellites such as Seasat (1978) and TOPEX/Poseidon (1992-2006) used advanced dual-band radar altimeters...

of radar sensor for Earth observation purposes was started by NASA/JPL's Seasat satellite, which carried three different radar sensors: a synthetic aperture...

create models of the Earth's shape. She became project manager for the Seasat radar altimetry project, the first satellite that could remotely sense oceans...

SCIAMACHY SeaWiFS SORCE SPOT TES Terra TRMM ERS Nimbus program Project Vanguard Seasat TOPEX/Poseidon TIROS Automated Quality control of meteorological observations...

projection. Early exploitation of satellite-based InSAR included use of Seasat data in the 1980s, but the potential of the technique was expanded in the...

for a few NASA missions. The last Atlas-Agena was flown in 1978 to launch SEASAT, but on a repurposed Atlas F missile rather than the SLV-3. Launches were...

JSR-84-117) SEASAT Report (January 1985; JSR-83-203) Multiple scattering effects in radar observations of wakes (August 1984; JSR-84-203B) SEASAT III & IV...

measured from the local Earth normal. The SMMR was flown on Seasat and NASA Nimbus 7 in 1978. Seasat operated only for a few months until the satellite suffered...

Earth observation satellite Indian Remote Sensing List of Indian satellites Seasat Shuttle Radar Topography Mission "Satellite: NISAR". World Meteorological...

geophysical mapping initiatives and ocean satellite altitude systems such as Seasat may have a covert purpose to map mass concentrations and determine local...

the late 1970s, the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on Seasat (1978) and Nimbus 7 (1978–87) satellites provided information that was independent...

glimpse of Earth's ocean as a whole from the pioneering but short-lived Seasat satellite. TOPEX/Poseidon's radar altimeter provided the first continuous...

wavelength = 0.031 m Wikimedia Commons has media related to SIR-C/X-SAR. Seasat – Seasat Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in 1978 STS-2 with SIR-A STS-41-G with...

Atlas-Agena used an Agena D stage atop a refurbished Atlas F missile to launch Seasat in 1978. Twelve more Agenas were launched on Titan vehicles through 1987...

five-frequency microwave radiometer flown on the Seasat and Nimbus 7 satellites. Both were launched in 1978, with the Seasat mission lasting less than six months...

retirement in 1999. He participated in a number of projects, including Viking, SEASAT, and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS). He served as the JPL deputy...

success of the Seasat mission in 1978. (There is information below under "Data Center" about the facility's 2013 release of newly processed Seasat SAR data...

Craig, C.H.; Sandwell, D.T. (1988). "Global distribution of seamounts from Seasat profiles". Journal of Geophysical Research. 93 (B9): 10408–410, 420. Bibcode:1988JGR...

first ever Digital SAR processor under the aegis of Canada’s MDA for NASA’s SEASAT SAR data (1978). He was the principal architect of Canada’s Radarsat-1 satellite...