The Envisat-1 Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument

Author

Suchail, J.-L. ; Buck, C. ; Guijarro, J. ; Torres, R.

Author_Institution

Eur. Space Res. & Technol. Centre, Noordwijk, Netherlands

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1441

Abstract

The Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) selected for the ENVISAT-1 mission of the European Space Agency, is a sensor of paramount importance for the remote sensing community due to its enhanced flexibility with respect to the ERS AMI. The combination of different spatial resolutions, incidence angles, swath width sizes and polarisation diversity will reflect in an increased number of operational modes tailored for a large set of scientific and operational applications. The use of an active antenna concept, a digital generation waveform technique and a block adaptive quantization compression scheme are among the innovative design features of this radar. In this paper, the status of the ASAR instrument development is described, the accomplished project milestones will he highlighted together with preliminary instrument performance

Keywords

geophysical equipment; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; ASAR; Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar; Envisat; Envisat-1; InSAR; SAR; ScanSAR; active antenna; block adaptive quantization compression; geophysical measurement technique; incidence angle; instrument; land surface; operational mode; polarisation diversity; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; spaceborne radar; spatial resolution; swath width size; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Adaptive arrays; Ambient intelligence; Instruments; Polarization; Quantization; Radar antennas; Remote sensing; Space missions; Spatial resolution; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.774658

Filename

774658