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.
The experimental oceanographic satellite Seasat-A
1978-01-01
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Mission design for SEASAT-A, an oceanographic satellite
AIAA | 1977
|Mission design for SEASAT-A, an oceanographic satellite
NTRS | 1977
|Seasat-A oceanographic data system and users
NTRS | 1976
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