Title :
ASAR instrument performance and product quality evolution
Author :
Tell, B.R. ; Monti-Guarnieri, A. ; Meadows, P.J. ; D´Aria, D. ; Tranfaglia, M. ; Santuari, M. ; Traver, I.N.
Author_Institution :
ESA-ESRIN, Paris
Abstract :
ENVISAT ASAR is successfully operating since March 2002 and resulting ASAR products are operationally distributed to the user community since December 2002. This paper provides an update of the ASAR performance, from the instrument status to the product quality assessment.
Keywords :
geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; ASAR instrument performance; ASAR instrument quality evolution; Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar; Environmental Sattelite; Calibration; Condition monitoring; Instruments; Polarization; Quality assessment; Receiving antennas; Space technology; Testing; Tiles; Transmission line measurements; ASAR; ScanSAR; Transmit/Receive antenna modules; burst synchronisation; calibration;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1211-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423068