RADARSAT-1 image quality/continuing success in extended mission

Author

Srivastava, S.K. ; Le Dantec, P. ; Banik, B.T. ; Shepherd, N. ; Gray, R. ; Hawkins, R.K. ; Murnaghan, K.P.

Author_Institution

Satellite Operations, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, Que., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

24-28 June 2002

Firstpage

140

Abstract

RADARSAT-1, the first Canadian SAR remote sensing satellite has successfully completed its design lifetime of five and a quarter years. It is in an extended mission operation meeting customer demands. The Image Quality Control program is kept fully operational. Measured results indicate that image quality performance continues to be better than system specification. This paper briefly describes image quality and recalibration work and measured results.

Keywords

calibration; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Image Quality Control program; RADARSAT; RADARSAT-1; SAR; ScanSAR; calibration; extended mission; geophysical measurement technique; image quality; land surface; ongoing operation; radar remote sensing; recalibration; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Calibration; Contracts; Extraterrestrial measurements; Heating; Image quality; Radar tracking; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Satellite broadcasting; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7536-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1024967

Filename

1024967