Abstract: An investigation into a potentially important, but little-studied effect on altimeter data?rain contamination?has been carried out using ERS-1. The method involves identifying large changes in the radar backscatter coefficient ...

Abstract: The Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) was launched in July 1991 on the European Space Agency's first remote sensing satellite ERS-1. ATSR has the potential to measure sea surface temperature (SST) to a precision of ...