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across-track scanner

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  1. [remote sensing] Also known as a whisk broom sensor. A remote-sensing tool with an oscillating mirror that moves back and forth across a satellite's direction of travel, creating scan line strips that are contiguous or that overlap slightly to produce an image. Media/across-track-scanner.gif

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