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scatterometer|skætəˈrɒmɪtə(r)|
[f. scatter n. + -ometer.]
A radar designed to provide information about the roughness or the profile of a surface from the way it scatters the incident microwaves.
1966Electronics 14 Nov. 44 A spacecraft, using a Scatterometer, has to fly over a pock-marked area of the lunar surface only once to get a detailed profile of the terrain. 1978Nature 22 June 586/2 Seasat-A is primarily a ‘proof of concept’ mission designed primarily to discover how effectively the microwave equipment which it carries—a scanning radiometer, a radar scatterometer, a synthetic aperture radar, and a radar altimeter—can provide useful scientific information for oceanographers, meteorologists and commercial sea-users. |