subject: Seasat-1 observation_ reprocessings _____________________________________________ Reprocessing of frames obtained of Seasat spacecraft in 2008. There is clear improvement thanks to my progress in processing over the past 2 years. http://tinyurl.com/2u4o7pu Now also, I made work of analysing the details and spent some time comparing them to different images and drawings. What I already knew earlier, is that the prominent bright beam visible in the images is the main body. The obvious visible panel must be the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), the first spaceborne SAR in history. Comparing different frames, it became clear, the solar panels which are on the other side of the main body are in this image invisible because they are probably edge-on or near edge-on. In some other frames the panels, just became visible, but these frames were not as good as this one. The other structures on the side of the SAR can be interpreted as some of the antennae on that side: http://tinyurl.com/37vzeuj The sat seems to fly in XPOP mode (the line through the main body is perpendicular to the orbital plane). The image you see, is made after culmination as it appeared the different antennae and panels were best visible then, during this pass. Ralf Vandebergh http://ralfvandebergh.startje.be/vieuw.php?qid=303316 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100810/51488683/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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