Measurements and Applications
Sea surface wind
Full Name
SeaSat-A Scatterometer System
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Scatterometers 
Geometry
Push-broom scanning
Instrument Technology
Radar scatterometer
Sampling
Resolution
50 km
[Best Resolution: 50000m]
Swath
Pushbroom, two swaths of 500 km on each side cross-track (extended to 700 km in case of strong wind), gap of 400 km in between
[Max Swath: 700 km]
Waveband
Ku-band (14.599 GHz), side looking both left and right. 2 antennas on each side. Polarisations VV or HH
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