scatterometern.
/skatəˈrɒmɪtə/ A radar designed to provide information about the roughness or the profile of a surface from the way it scatters the incident microwaves.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > radar apparatus > types of
radio sounder1931
sonde1940
scatterometer1966
1966 Electronics 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.
1978 Nature 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
<
n.1966