Russian Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar “Strizh” for Light Satellites of “Condor-E” type
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:
Turuk, Vladimir; Verba, Vladimir; Golovanova, Marina; Neronskiy, Leon (JSC Radio Engineering Corporation VEGA, Russia)
Zaitsev, Sergey (JSC MIC NPO Mashinostroyenia, Russia)
Tolstov, Evgeny (JSC Aerokon, Russia)
Abstract:
The article contains a brief description of the Russian S-band SAR “Strizh”, which is a payload of the light satellites of “Condor-E" type launched into orbit in 2013 and 2014. The article gives the examples of the obtained images in comparison with the X-band TerraSAR-X images. The article considers the ways to improve the equipment and build-up the orbital grouping.