Author/Authors :
Evans، نويسنده , , Diane L. and Alpers، نويسنده , , Werner and Cazenave، نويسنده , , Anny and Elachi، نويسنده , , Charles and Farr، نويسنده , , Tom and Glackin، نويسنده , , David and Holt، نويسنده , , Benjamin and Jones، نويسنده , , Linwood and Liu، نويسنده , , W. Timothy and McCandless، نويسنده , , Walt and Menard، نويسنده , , Yves and Moore، نويسنده , , Richard and Njoku، نويسنده , , Eni، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
Thousands of scientific publications and dozens of textbooks include data from instruments derived from NASAʹs 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 Earthʹs oceans, the legacy of Seasat has had a profound impact in many other areas including solid earth science, hydrology, ecology and planetary science.
