The Sentinel-1 C-SAR Instrument

Conference: EUSAR 2012 - 9th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
04/23/2012 - 04/26/2012 at Nuremberg, Germany

Proceedings: EUSAR 2012

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Rostan, Friedhelm; Riegger, Sebastian; Huchler, Markus (Astrium GmbH, D-88039 Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Croci, Renato (Thales Alenia Space Italia, I-00131, Italy)
Torres, Ramon (ESA-ESTEC, NL-2201 Noordwijk, The Netherlands)

Abstract:
The paper describes the C-SAR instrument for the GMES Sentinel-1 mission. After a brief introduction a description of the overall C-SAR instrument as well as of the design and development status of its major subsystems (i.e. the SES Electronic Subsystem (SES) and the SAR Antenna Subsystem (SAS)) is given. The main focus on this paper is on the SAS, since there is a dedicated paper on the SES within the same session.