April 1980 VOLUME 5 NUMBER 2 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON SEASAT-1 Sensors

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

EDITORIAL
David E. Weissman Preface 71

PAPERS
D. B. Lame, G. H. Born, J. A. Dunne, A. J. Spear, and C. A. Yamarone Seasat performance evaluation: The first two steps 72
Donald E. Barrick and Calvin T. Swift The Seasat microwave instruments in historical perspective 74
William F. Townsend An initial assessment of the performance achieved by the Seasat-1 radar altimeter 80
David W. Hancock, Ronald G. Forsythe, and Jack Lorell Seasat altimeter sensor file algorithms 93
Eni G. Njoku, J. M. Stacey, and Frank T. Barath The Seasat scanning multichannel microwave radiometer (SMMR): Instrument description and performance 100
Paul N. Swanson and A. Landis Riley The Seasat scanning multichannel microwave radiometer (SMMR): Radiometric calibration algorithm development and performance 116
Eni G. Njoku, Edward J. Christensen, and Richard E. Cofield The Seasat scanning multichannel microwave radiometer (SMMR): Antenna pattern corrections-Development and implementation 125
James W. Johnson, Leon A. Williams Jr., Emedio M. Bracalente, Fred B. Beck, and William L. Grantham Seasat-A satellite scatterometer instrument evaluation 138
Emedio M. Bracalente, Dale H. Boggs, William L. Grantham, and Jon L. Sweet The SASS1 scattering coefficient \sigma ° algorithm 145
Rolando L. Jordan The Seasat-A synthetic aperture radar system 154
P. McClain, R. Marks, G. Cunningham, and A. McCulloch Visible and infrared radiometer on Seasat-1 164
Willard J. Pierson, Steven Peteherych, and John C. Wilkerson The winds of the comparison data set for the Seasat Gulf of Alaska experiment 169