SAR Instrument Pre-development Activities for SAOCOM-CS
Konferenz: EUSAR 2016 - 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06.06.2016 - 09.06.2016 in Hamburg, Germany
Tagungsband: EUSAR 2016
Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF
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Autoren:
Gebert, Nicolas; Carnicero Dominguez, Bernardo; Diaz Martin, Marina (ESA ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands)
Di Salvo, Elia; Temussi, Francesca; Giove, Paolo Valerio (Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A., Via Saccomuro 24, 00131 Rome, Italy)
Gibbons, Mike; Phelps, Percy; Griffiths, Les (Airbus Defence and Space Ltd., Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, UK)
Inhalt:
In preparation of potential future Earth observation Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) missions, the European Space Agency (ESA) is conducting instrument preparatory activities. This paper discusses the status of the on-going pre-developments for the L-band instrument of SAOCOM-CS which is a receive-only satellite, to be launched and to fly in formation with Argentina’s L-band SAR satellite SAOCOM, which acts as an illuminator. This would enable for the first time single-pass SAR interferometry at L-band. This paper presents the status of the predevelopment of the Central Electronics and the Antenna front-end of SAOCOM-CS.