Re: C-SAT

["Roger A. Pruitt" <phrp@fhsuvm.fhsu.edu>]

Jim Green wrote:
> There is a guy named William F Haxby (I think at Columbia) who takes ocean
> height data from C-SAT and because sea mounts cause local (over a few miles)
> changes in ocean height, he can map the sea bottom surface.
>
> What does the list know about this???
>
> Do I have the satellite name correct?  May be it is SEA-SAT.
>
> Who sponsors this satillite and what does it generally do?
>
> Do you think there is a co-tidal map from this same data?
>
> Anybody know anythng more than my babbling?
>
> TX
>
> Jim Green
> JMGreen@sisna.com

The Dec. 16, 1995 issue of *Science News* contained a feature article "A New 
View of Earth: Seeing the seafloor from space." Check it out for answers to 
your question.

Roger