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[PhilHorzempa]

SEASAT was a pioneering mission in using SAR to produce images of
a planetary surface. It was the true precursor mission that made Magellan,
the SRTM (STS-99), and Cassini possible.

It was launched in 1978 and its mission was relativley short.
Even though its main mission was monitoring sea surface conditions, its SAR
produced a good number of high-quality images of the continents.

Does anyone in the UMSF community have good Earth images from SEASAT
that they could share? Those images seem to be scarce on the Internet.
Also, images of the SEASAT spacecraft itself would be neat to see.


Another Phil

[Paolo]

If you have access to www.sciencemag.org you can find the preliminary results of Seasat in vol. 204, from page 1405 on.
And there is a very good article on SAR, which includes lot of Seasat imagery in vol.209 from page 1073.
BTW, there are quite some infomrations on Seasat and a radar picture in the new book "into the Black" http://www.thespacereview.com/article/809/1