Seasat - A 25-year legacy of success

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 384-404

  Evans, Diane L ^a   Alpers, Werner ^b   Cazenave, Anny ^c   Elachi, Charles ^a   Farr, Tom ^a   Glackin, David ^d   Holt, Benjamin ^a   Jones, Linwood ^e   Liu, W Timothy ^a   McCandless, Walt ^f   Menard, Yves ^c   Moore, Richard ^g   Njoku, Eni ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c CNES   (France)

^d AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^f User Systems Enterprises   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer; Seasat; Synthetic Aperture Radar

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LEGACY SYSTEMS; MICROWAVES; RADIO ALTIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE RESEARCH; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTBOOKS;

OCEAN SURFACE; PLANETARY SCIENCE; POLAR ICE CAPS; RADAR ALTIMETER; SCANNING MULTICHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER (SMMR);

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE MISSION; SEA SURFACE; SEASAT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

HESPERIS;

EID: 19944431353     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.09.011     Document Type: Article

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