TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X Mission Status
Conference: EUSAR 2016 - 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/06/2016 - 06/09/2016 at Hamburg, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2016
Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Buckreuss, Stefan; Zink, Manfred (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Microwaves and Radar Institute, Germany)
Abstract:
TerraSAR-X, launched on June 15th, 2007 and its identically constructed twin satellite TanDEM-X, launched on June 21st, 2010 supply high-quality radar data in order to serve two mission goals: Scientific observation of the Earth and provision of remote sensing data for the commercial market (TerraSAR-X mission) and the generation of a global digital elevation model (DEM) of the Earth’s surface (TanDEM-X mission). The status of both, TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X mission and the status of the space and ground segment activities will be presented in this paper.