Seasat to Radarsat-2: Research to Operations

In 2013, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) brought to operations a synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-derived subkilometer resolution wind speed product. This transition from research to operations comes 35 years after the 1978 launch of the US Seasat satellite, which demonstrat...

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Main Authors: William G. Pichel, Christopher R. Jackson, Frank M. Monaldo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2013-06-01
Series:Oceanography
Subjects:
SAR
Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/26-2_monaldo.pdf