Sentinel 1 - the future GMES C-band SAR mission

Author

Snoeij, Paul ; Attema, Evert ; Torres, Ramon ; Levrini, Guido ; Croci, Renato ; Abbate, Michelangelo L. ; Pietropaolo, Andrea ; Rostan, Friedhelm ; Huchler, Markus

Author_Institution

Eur. Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands

fYear

2009

fDate

Sept. 30 2009-Oct. 2 2009

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

24

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

radar imaging; satellite links; synthetic aperture radar; C-band SAR mission; Earth observation; Sentinel 1 mission; imaging synthetic aperture radar; operational satellites; satellite constellation; Geoscience; Instruments; Monitoring; Radar applications; Radar imaging; Radar remote sensing; Satellite constellations; Space missions; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2009. EuRAD 2009. European

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4747-3

Type

conf

Filename

5307219