SeaSat ESA Archive
Jan-1978 | SeaSat was a NASA/JPL experimental EO mission launched in 1978. It carried
the first space borne SAR. During its brief 106-day lifetime, SeaSat collected more
information about the oceans than had been acquired in the previous 100 years
of shipboard research. The SAR instrument provided a wealth of information on
diverse ocean phenomena such as sea-surface winds and temperatures, surface
and internal waves, currents, sea ice, wind, and rainfall, thus giving the first
global view of ocean circulation. The collection is the complete SeaSat dataset acquired by ESA, and access is provided through the TPM scheme. Read more |