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Seasat [3] was the first Earth-orbiting satellite designed for remote sensing of the Earth's oceans and had on board one of the first spaceborne synthetic-aperture radar (SAR). ). The mission was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of global satellite monitoring of oceanographic phenomena and to help determine the requirements for an operational ocean remote sensing satellite sys
Princeton university engineers have created a type of Doppler radar, typically used to catch speeding cars, that bounces radio waves off stationary objects to effectively “see” around corners.
Synthetic aperture radar was first used by NASA on JPL's Seasat oceanographic satellite in 1978 (this mission also carried an altimeter and a scatterometer); it was later developed more extensively on the Spaceborne Imaging Radar (SIR) missions on the space shuttle in 1981, 1984 and 1994.
General Motors Co's venture capital arm has invested millions of dollars in Oculii, a U.S. startup maker of software for radar sensors used in self-driving cars, Oculii co-founder Steven Hong said.
AN/APN-236 development of AN/APN-233 Doppler radar system by Teledyne; AN/APN-237 K u band terrain-following radar by Texas Instruments part of AN/AAQ-13; AN/APN-239 improvement of AN/APN-234 weather and navigational radar (Model RDR-1400C) Bendix Corporation for HH-60G, MH-60G; AN/APN-240 improved AN/APN-169 station keeping radar system by ...
Space-based radar or spaceborne radar is a radar operating in outer space; orbiting radar is a radar in orbit and Earth orbiting radar is a radar in geocentric orbit. A number of Earth-observing satellites , such as RADARSAT , have employed synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to obtain terrain and land-cover information about the Earth .
The Radar-C system was built and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The mission was a joint work of NASA with the German and Italian space agencies. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Each of the week long mission scanned about 50 million square kilometers of the Earth's surface, (19.3 million square miles).
The Alaska Satellite Facility began as a single-purpose receiving station known as the Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility [7] located in the Geophysical Institute (GI) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. [8] The interest in space-borne SAR observations began in the U.S. with the success of the Seasat mission in 1978. [9] (There ...