SIGNAL: Mission Concept and Performance Assessment
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:
Villano, Michelangelo; Moreira, Alberto; Hajnsek, Irena; López-Dekker, Paco; Börner, Thomas; Zan, Francesco De; Krieger, Gerhard; Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P. (Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Miller, Heinrich (Alfred Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Research, Germany)
Rott, Helmut (Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Hajnsek, Irena (Department of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Bamler, Richard (Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Abstract:
SIGNAL (SAR for Ice, Glacier and oceaN globAL dynamics) is a proposal for an innovative Earth observation mission, under study at German Space Agency. The mission objectives include the determination of ice topography and its temporal changes, the monitoring of fast-flowing glaciers, and the characterisation of ocean currents, by using Ka-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Two approaches to the mission, including a single satellite with multiple antennas and two free flyers, are presented and critically discussed. A preliminary performance analysis for the key mission measurements has been performed and will be presented.