A Low Cost C-band SAR Small Satellite Definition for Disasters Management
Conference: EUSAR 2014 - 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/03/2014 - 06/05/2014 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2014
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Yaung, James Yu-Chen; Tarn, I-Young; Wu, Bor-Han; Chang, Chih-Li; Chang, Hao-Chi; Yu, Shiann-Jeng (National Space Organization of National Applied Research Laboratories, Taiwan)
Chung, Shyh-Jong; Lee, Yun-Jui (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)
Abstract:
Monsoons and typhoons bring along heavy precipitation and they can cause significant disasters in Taiwan in addition to earthquakes. Ever since a small satellite SAR mission was defined and published in APSAR2011 [1], the mission has been analyzed for seeking a feasible development solution with little critical technolgoy item. This work revealed a C-band small satellite payload definition solution and it was published in APSAR2013 [2]. Now, a skilful power combining technique using GaN SSPA products is identified as the enabling technology to substantiate the C-band system defined. Consequently, a satellite definition work has been initated in NSPO.