Special:Badtitle/NS90:Milestone-Proposal talk:First Digitally Processed Image from a Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar/SAR Milestone Discussion/reply (6)

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First Digitally Processed Image from a Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar, 1978

In November 1978, a team from MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) became the first to use a digital processor to reconstruct an image from Seasat-A, the first civilian spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). MDA engineers subsequently developed three of the four most important SAR digital processing algorithms that replaced the optical processing methods used previously.