The 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.
Seasat-A Synthetic Aperture Radar - Radar system implementation
Annual Combined Conference on Oceans ''76 ; 1976 ; Washington, DC
1976-01-01
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SEASAT Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
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|A Seasat-A Synthetic Aperture Imaging Radar System
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|IEEE | 1967
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