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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...
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    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...
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    the so-called geocenter coordinates. Example: LAGEOS Satellites such as Seasat (1978) and TOPEX/Poseidon (1992-2006) used advanced dual-band radar altimeters...
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  • SCIAMACHY SeaWiFS SORCE SPOT TES Terra TRMM ERS Nimbus program Project Vanguard Seasat TOPEX/Poseidon TIROS Automated Quality control of meteorological observations...
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    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...
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    of radar sensor for Earth observation purposes was started by NASA/JPL's Seasat satellite, which carried three different radar sensors: a synthetic aperture...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    wavelength = 0.031 m Wikimedia Commons has media related to SIR-C/X-SAR. SeasatSeasat Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in 1978 STS-2 with SIR-A STS-41-G with...
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    solid-fueled upper stages, a notable exception being Missile 23F which launched Seasat, a NASA oceanography satellite, on June 27, 1978, the last Atlas-Agena vehicle...
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