Sentinel-1 mission overview

Author

Attema, Evert ; Davidson, Malcolm ; Snoeij, Paul ; Rommen, Björn ; Floury, Nicolas

Author_Institution

Eur. Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands

Volume

1

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

Abstract

The ESA Sentinels constitute the first series of operational satellites responding to the Earth Observation needs of the EU-ESA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme. The GMES space component relies on existing and planned space assets as well as on new complementary developments by ESA. This paper describes the Sentinel-1 mission, an imaging synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation at C-band. It provides an overview of the mission requirements, its applications and the technical concept for the system.

Keywords

geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; EU-ESA GMES programme; EU-ESA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme; GMES Sentinel-1 radar images; Sentinel-1 SAR constellation; Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar constellation; earth observation; synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation; Data security; Earth; Ice; Information security; Monitoring; Radar imaging; Satellites; Sea measurements; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; GMES; RADAR; SAR; Spaceborne;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3394-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5416921

Filename

5416921