Along-track scanner

along-track scanner
See Also: across-track scanner
[remote sensing] A remote-sensing tool with a line of many fixed sensors that record reflected radiation from the terrain along a satellite's direction of movement, ...

along-track scanner
A remote-sensing tool with a line of many fixed sensors that record reflected radiation from the terrain along a satellite's direction of movement, creating scan-line strips that are contiguous or that overlap slightly, ...

See also: Coordinate, Elevation, Environment, Area of interest, Interaction