Challenges for Next Generation SAR: The Micro-SAR Trend

Abstract:
SAR Mission developers are facing several challenges to meet their requirements such as the choice of frequencies when it is not multi-frequencies requirements, trade-off between conflicting requirements, architecture that can meet the INSAR requirements and with the new development of micro-SAR, the choice between fast implementation of low-cost short life SAR versus slow implementation of expensive long-life SAR. This paper provides an overview and explains those challenges considering the environment context. It serves as an introduction to the other papers in the session.