New Analysis Ready Data products for European Space Agency Synthetic Aperture Radar missions

Abstract:
This paper presents the efforts of the European Space Agency (ESA) to define a harmonised family of SAR Analysis Ready Data (ARD) products for the Sentinel-1, ERS-1/2, ENVISAT, ROSE-L and BIOMASS missions. This family of new SAR products is specifically aimed at users who are interestet in exploring the potential of SAR but may lack the expertise of facilities for SAR processing. It will allow immediate analysis with minimum additional user effort, and interoperability between sets of past and future ESA missions.