Development Status of the Biomass SAR Instrument
Conference: EUSAR 2021 - 13th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
03/29/2021 - 04/01/2021 at online
Proceedings: EUSAR 2021
Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Fuegen, Thomas; Sperlich, Eckhardt; Heer, Christoph (Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Warren, Carl (Airbus Defence and Space Ltd., Stevenage, United Kingdom)
Carbone, Adriano (RHEA for ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands)
Heliere, Florence (European Space Agency ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands)
Abstract:
Biomass, ESA’s 7th Earth Explorer mission, will provide the first global scale, systematic measurements of the global distribution of biomass. This paper describes the Biomass instrument, an imaging synthetic aperture radar (SAR) at P-band. It provides an overview of the mission application and architecture, the instrument requirements, technical concept, development status and the predicted instrument performance.