Sentinel-1 Mission Overview
Conference: EUSAR 2010 - 8th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/07/2010 - 06/10/2010 at Aachen, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2010
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Davidson, Malcolm; Snoeij, Paul; Attema, Evert; Rommen, Björn; Floury, Nicolas; Levrini, Guido; Duesmann, Berthyl (European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, P.O. Box 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands)
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.