Introduction to the Special Issue on Ocean Remote Sensing With Synthetic Aperture Radar

Seasat (Seafaring Satellite) was launched 35 years ago on June 26, 1978, with the first civilian synthetic aperture radar (SAR) dedicated to ocean science. Unfortunately, the excitement of sending images of the ocean, ice, and Earth lasted only 100 days when Seasat abruptly stopped operation due to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hans Graber, Jochen Horstmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2013-06-01
Series:Oceanography
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Online Access:http://www.tos.org/oceanography/archive/26-2_graber.pdf