Sentinel-1 ESA’s New European Radar Observatory
Conference: EUSAR 2008 - 7th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/02/2008 - 06/05/2008 at Friedrichshafen, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2008
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Attema, Evert; Davidson, Malcolm; Floury, Nicolas; Levrini, Guido; Rommen, Björn; Snoeij, Paul (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
Rosich, Betlem (European Space Agency, Italy)
Abstract:
The ESA Sentinels constitute the first series of operational satellites responding to the Earth Observation needs of the EU-ESA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme. The GMES space com-ponent relies on existing and planned space assets as well as on new complementary developments by ESA. This paper describes the Sentinel-1 mission, an imaging synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation at C-band. It provides an overview of the mission requirements, its applications and the preliminary technical concept for the system.