The Seasat microwave instruments in historical perspective
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- 1 April 1980
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
- Vol. 5 (2) , 74-79
- https://doi.org/10.1109/joe.1980.1145457
Abstract
The history of research and development that led to the successful demonstration of the four microwave remote sensing instruments on Seasat (the scatterometer, radiometer, altimeter, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR)) is briefly reviewed in this paper.Keywords
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