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The SeaWinds sensor was launched onboard two satellite missions. The first was the QuikSCAT mission launched in mid 1999 by NASA, and the second was the ADEOS II mission launched by JAXA in late 2002. SeaWinds operates at a ku-band frequency of 13.4 GHz, and was originally designed to measure the speed and direction of the ocean surface wind vector by relating the normalized radar backscatter measurements...
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