Title

Seasat - A 25-Year Legacy Of Success

Keywords

Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer; Seasat; Synthetic Aperture Radar

Abstract

Thousands of scientific publications and dozens of textbooks include data from instruments derived from NASA's Seasat. The Seasat mission was launched on June 26, 1978, on an Atlas-Agena rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It was the first Earth-orbiting satellite to carry four complementary microwave experiments-the Radar Altimeter (ALT) to measure ocean surface topography by measuring spacecraft altitude above the ocean surface; the Seasat-A Satellite Scatterometer (SASS), to measure wind speed and direction over the ocean; the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) to measure surface wind speed, ocean surface temperature, atmospheric water vapor content, rain rate, and ice coverage; and the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), to image the ocean surface, polar ice caps, and coastal regions. While originally designed for remote sensing of the Earth's oceans, the legacy of Seasat has had a profound impact in many other areas including solid earth science, hydrology, ecology and planetary science.

Publication Date

2-15-2005

Publication Title

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volume

94

Issue

3

Number of Pages

384-404

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2004.09.011

Socpus ID

19944431353 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/19944431353

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