The Seasat-A project - An overview
Scheduled for launch in the second quarter of calendar year 1978, the Seasat-A satellite is designed to provide all-weather global monitoring of sea surface temperature, significant wave height, surface wind speed and direction and departures from the marine geoid corresponding to ocean dynamic proc...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:19780028920 2023-05-15T18:18:18+02:00 The Seasat-A project - An overview Dunne, J. A. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available JAN 1, 1976 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19780028920 unknown http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19780028920 Accession ID: 78A12829 Copyright Other Sources 15 Annual Combined Conference on Oceans '76; September 13-15, 1976; Washington, DC 1976 ftnasantrs 2012-02-15T13:25:53Z Scheduled for launch in the second quarter of calendar year 1978, the Seasat-A satellite is designed to provide all-weather global monitoring of sea surface temperature, significant wave height, surface wind speed and direction and departures from the marine geoid corresponding to ocean dynamic processes. These data will be obtained from an array of microwave instruments, two active ones (short pulse radar altimeter and wind field scatterometer) and one passive (scanning multichannel microwave radiometer). An experimental L-band synthetic aperture radar, operated on a selected basis for approximately four percent of the time, will provide land and ocean images with a resolution of 25 meters and a swath width close to 100 km for the study of coastal processes, sea ice and ocean wave characteristics. The mission objectives focus on an evaluation of the performance of the instruments in terms of their capabilities to characterize the desired geophysical quantities and the utility of such measurements to the study and exploitation of the world's oceans. Other/Unknown Material Sea ice NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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Scheduled for launch in the second quarter of calendar year 1978, the Seasat-A satellite is designed to provide all-weather global monitoring of sea surface temperature, significant wave height, surface wind speed and direction and departures from the marine geoid corresponding to ocean dynamic processes. These data will be obtained from an array of microwave instruments, two active ones (short pulse radar altimeter and wind field scatterometer) and one passive (scanning multichannel microwave radiometer). An experimental L-band synthetic aperture radar, operated on a selected basis for approximately four percent of the time, will provide land and ocean images with a resolution of 25 meters and a swath width close to 100 km for the study of coastal processes, sea ice and ocean wave characteristics. The mission objectives focus on an evaluation of the performance of the instruments in terms of their capabilities to characterize the desired geophysical quantities and the utility of such measurements to the study and exploitation of the world's oceans. |
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