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Seasat-A Synthetic Aperture Radar - Radar system implementationThe Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) onboard the Seasat-A satellite will conduct a number of experiments involving deep ocean waves, coastal wave patterns, polar ice and land forms. The SAR will have a 25 m by 25 m resolution over a swath of 100 km width centered about 300 km to the right of the spacecraft track. The SAR's high data rate limits operations to times when Seasat-A is in view of a few ground stations with special SAR receiving equipment. However, the SAR will collect much useful data about deep ocean and coastal waves in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; about ice in the Northwest Atlantic, in the Great Lakes and off the coast of Alaska; and about land over much of the United States and Canada.
Document ID
19780028924
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Thompson, T. W.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Laderman, A.
(California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Sciences Div., Pasadena Calif., United States)
Date Acquired
August 9, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1976
Subject Category
Spacecraft Instrumentation
Meeting Information
Meeting: Annual Combined Conference on Oceans ''76
Location: Washington, DC
Start Date: September 13, 1976
End Date: September 15, 1976
Accession Number
78A12833
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS7-100
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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