Sentence examples for swath altimeter from inspiring English sources

Its main payload will be a wide swath altimeter which will provide maps of water surface elevations between 78°S and 78°N over a 120 km swath.

Soon after the magnitude-7.2 temblor that struck northern Baja California, Mexico, on 4 April 2010, scientists used aircraft-mounted laser altimeters, which are typically used to map terrain at high-resolution, to scan the swath of landscape including the numerous fault zones believed to have generated the quake.

These swaths of elevation data contain up to two orders of magnitude more surface elevation measurements than standard altimeter products, which provide single elevation measurements based on the range to the Point-Of-Closest-Approach (POCA) in the vicinity of the sub-satellite ground track.

The altimeter kept beeping.

The plural of "swath" is "swaths".

The second altimeter gave a like result.

A laser altimeter (the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or MOLA) measures the height of landscape features.

You need 250 grams for a radar altimeter.

People who cut a dramatic swath.

The Ultra adds an altimeter to count stairs climbed.

A typical pressure altimeter is illustrated in the figure.