Title :
RADARSAT-2 program update
Author :
Brûlé, L. ; Baeggli, H.
Author_Institution :
Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, Que., Canada
Abstract :
RADARSAT-2, scheduled for launch in 2004, will be the next Canadian commercial Earth observation SAR satellite. This paper presents an overview of the mission, some featured innovations, and the imaging capabilities.
Keywords :
geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; 5.4 GHz; C-band; Canadian satellite; RADARSAT; RADARSAT-2; SAR; SHF; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; radar remote sensing; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Aircraft manufacture; Commercialization; Job shop scheduling; Payloads; Phased arrays; Polarization; Receiving antennas; Satellites; Solid state circuits; Space technology;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7536-X
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026149
