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Interesting, it seems to be the first SAR satellite launched, decidedly beating JPL's Seasat. I wonder to what extent this experiment flowed into that project and other radar satellites and missions (especially the various Shuttle radar missions)?
When the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration launched Seasat in 1978, that "first spacebornesynthetic aperture radar" failed to surpass Quill's azimuth resolutionand showed little qualitative difference in its imagery.
Does anyone know if QUILL used Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) or a regular "real" aperture radar?
I was not aware of this book:https://books.google.com/books/about/Trailblazer_1964.html?id=5VyUDAEACAAJIt is a compendium of all the documents that the NRO put on its website for QUILL. The surprising thing is that the print/image quality is much better in the scan of this book than in the documents that NRO put online.Does anybody know:-if it is possible to get a pdf of this book (the above link is a google scan)?-how I can get hold of a physical copy?I have an article on QUILL in press. I need to grab some good images to go with it.
The surprising thing is that the print/image quality is much better in the scan of this book than in the documents that NRO put online.