The Sentinel-1 radar mission: status and performance

Author

Snoeij, Paul ; Attema, Evert ; Davidson, Malcolm ; Duesmann, Berthyl ; Floury, Nicolas ; Levrini, Guido ; Rommen, Björn ; Rosich, Betlem

Author_Institution

ESTEC, Eur. Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands

fYear

2009

fDate

12-16 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

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

monitoring; radar imaging; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; ESA Sentinels; EU-ESA; Earth observation; GMES programme; Sentinel-1 radar mission; global monitoring for environment and security; operational satellites; synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation; Instruments; Interferometry; Monitoring; Radar applications; Radar imaging; Radar remote sensing; Satellites; Space missions; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; C-Band; SAR; Satellite; Space-borne Radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference - Surveillance for a Safer World, 2009. RADAR. International

Conference_Location

Bordeaux

Print_ISBN

978-2-912328-55-7

Type

conf

Filename

5438513