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Provide an explanation

Please provide a terse explanation for what 'push broom' means. Raster scan? Boustrophedonic scan? Is the sensor scanning back and forth, or staring in a thin line as the spacecraft progresses forward? 12.33.223.211 (talk) 02:41, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Neither - those first two would both be a whisk broom scanner. The push broom is a fixed line, moving perpendicular to its axis. Domestic document scanners are a familiar example.

The advantage is few parts as there's no need for a scan axis, the downside is that the sensor needs to have many pixels. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:40, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]