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N S PILLAI
SPACE APPLICATIONS CENTRE
AHMEDABAD
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THERE HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS EFFORT
WORLD WIDE TO ACQUIRE AND UNDERSTAND
THIS DATA AND HARNESS IT FOR VARIOUS
APPLICATIONS.
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THE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES CAN BE
BROADLY CLASSIFIED AS :
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SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IS A HIGH RESOLUTION
IMAGING RADAR MOUNTED ON AN AIRCRAFT OR SPACECRAFT
THAT ACHIEVES VERY HIGH RESOLUTION USING THE DOPPLER
SIGNAL DUE TO THE RELATIVE MOTION. SAR ALSO USES THE
HIGH BAND WIDTH SIGNAL TO ACHIEVE VERY HIGH
RESOLUTION IN THE ACROSS TRACK DIRECTION.
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ALTITUDE An am
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resolution
using Doppler
Aircraft Signal
SWATH
Across Track
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THE FIRST MAJOR SPACEBORNE SAR PROGRAMME WAS THE
SEASAT-A LAUNCHED BY NASA IN 1978.
FREQUENCY/BAND L-BAND
POLARISATION SINGLE/LINEAR
RESOLUTION 25M X 25M(4LOOKS)
SWATH 100 KMs
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THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY ERS-1 (ESA,1991),JERS-1 (NASDA, 1992)
AND ERS-2 (ESA, 1995). WHILE JERS-1 WAS SIMILAR TO SEASAT
OPERATING IN L-BAND, ERS-1 & 2 WERE OPERATING IN C-BAND.
JERS-1
ERS-1
The SAR provides cloud-free radar images of
Frequency 1.3 GHZ L-band mainly the Earth's surfaces, monitoring and
Polarization HH vegatation and growth, floadings, cultivation
Swath Width 75 km
Incidence Angle 35 degrees of land. When two consecutive images are
Resolution 18 m merged though the technique of
SAR: The JERS-1 SAR is a high-resolution, interferometry (INSAR), the instrument can
all-weather imaging radar that can map
the topography and geological even detect landslides and depressions over
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characteristics of the earth's surface. an approximately 100x100 km area.
THOUGH NASA DID NOT FOLLOW UP SEASAT WITH SAR
SATELLITES, THEY PURSUED SAR RESEARCH WITH
SHUTTLE-BORNE SAR SYSTEMS VIZ. SIR-A, SIR-B AND
SIR-C. SIR STANDS FOR SHUTTLE IMAGING RADARS.
SIR-C PROVIDED THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY FOR THE
USER TO EXPERIENCE THE MULTI FREQUENCY (L, C&X)
MULTI POLARISATION (V V, VH, HV & HH) DATA.
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ENVISAT-AN ERS-1/2 FOLLOW-ON MISSION
SATELLITE
ASAR CHARACTERISTICS
FREQUENCY 5.331 GHz (C band)
IMAGE : 30 m x 30 m
WAVE : 30 m X 30 m
RESOLUTION IN MODE
WIDE SWATH : 150 m x 150 m
ANTENNA 10 m x 1, 2 m
NUMBER OF TILES 20
MASS 850 KG
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CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY LAUNCHED THE RADARSAT
SERIES WITH THE LAUNCH OF RADARSAT-1 IN 1995.
RADASAT-1 CARRIED A C-BAND SAR WITH SCANSAR
MODE WHICH CAN PROVIDE A WIDE SWATH COVERAGE
AT THE COST OF RESOLUTION.
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RADARSAT-1
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RADARSAT-1
IMAGING MODES
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IMAGING MODES RADARSAT-1
Mode Nominal No. of Swath Incidence Angles
Resolution (m) Positions / Width (km) (degrees)
Beams
Fine 8 15 45 37 - 47
Standard 30 7 100 20 - 49
Wide 30 3 150 20 - 45
ScanSAR 50 2 300 20 - 49
Narrow
Extended 18 - 27 3 75 52 - 58
High
Extended 30 1 170 10 - 22
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SOME OF THE MAJOR ADVANCES
THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE DURING
THIS PERIOD ARE :
9INTERFEROMETRY
9 POLARIMETRY
9 SPOT LIGHT MODE OPERATION
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INTERFEROMETRY
MAGING MODES
Fine Beam 10 meters over 50 km
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ADVANCED LAND OBSERVATION SATELLITE
(ALOS)
ALOS WILL BE
CARRYING A
PHASED
ARRAY L-BAND
SAR (PAL SAR)
POLARIZATION HH or VV HH + HV + or HH + VV HH + HV + VH + VV
VV + VH
INCIDENT ANGLE 8 ~ 60 DEG. 8 ~ 30 DEG. 18 ~ 43 DEG. 8 ~ 30 DEG.
RANGE RESOLUTION 7 ~ 44 M 14 ~ 88 M 100 M (MULTI LOOK) 24 ~ 89 M
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BASIC SATELLITE AND INSTRUMENT CHARACTERISITCS
Satellite
1023 kg wet mass
800 W orbit average power
Instrument
Active array antenna (electric beam steering / multipol
X-band multi-mode SAR Sensor (left and right looking
- Scan SAR mode (16 m resolution, 100 km swath width)
- Strip Map mode (3 m resolution, 30 km swath width)
- Spot Light mode (1…2 m resolution, 5…10 km x 10 km)
Downlink
No direct data transmission to the ground
256 Gbit on-board data storage (global coverage)
300 Mbit/sec downlink data dump in Z-Band 29
TerraSAR-X Imaging Modes
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COSMO– SKY MED SYSTEM– SPACE SEGMENT
ORBIT
4 satellites phased at 900
Phased sun-synchronous 14+1316
Altitude 619 km
Phased sun-synchronous 14+1316
Equator cross time around 6h00
SPOTLIGHT
- Resolution : order of the m or less
- Spot area : tens of km2
HIMAGE (Stripmap)
- Resolution : few meters
- Swath width : several tens of km
WIDEREGIO
- Resolution : order of the m or less
- Spot area : tens of km2 35
SAR - LUPE
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Micro SAR
FREQUENCY : X-BAND
POLARISATION : HH
ACCESS CAPABILITY : >500Km (either side of nadir)
RADAR BEAM POINTING: : +1 Km at 500Km off nadir
DOWNLINK : X-BAND (100Mb/s, QPSK)
MASS 200-300kg
SIZE OPERATING MODE STRIPMAP SCANSAR
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RISAT : MAJOR SYSTEM PARAMETERS
ALTITUDE 586.87 KM
FREQUENCY 5.35 Ghz
ORBIT SUN SYNCHRONOUS
POLARISATION SINGLE / DUAL/ QUAD POLARISATION
RESOLUTION (IN METER) SINGLE POL DUAL POL QUAD POL
HH / HV / VV / VH. HH+HV / VV+VH HH+HV+VV+VH
High Resolution Spotlight Azimuth 1m Azimuth 1m
HRS Sl. Range 0.7 m Sl. Rang 0.7 m
Fine Resolution Strip map Azimuth 3m Azimuth 3m Azimuth 9m
FRS Sl. Range 2m Sl. Range 2m Sl. Range 4m
Medium Resolution SCANSAR Azimuth 24 m Azimuth 24 m
MRS Sl. Range 8m Sl. Range 8m
Coarse Resolution SCANSAR Azimuth 50 m Azimuth 50 m
CRS Sl. Range 8m Sl. Range 8m
SWATH 10 km x 10 km SPOT (HRS)
(IN km) 30 km STRIP (FRS)
120 km STRIP (MRS)
240 km STRIP (CRS)
LOOK ANGLE COVERAGE 18.7 degrees to 44.3 degrees
INCIDENCE ANGLE COVERAGE 20.5 degrees to 49.7 degrees
FRS1/FRS2
MODE
HRS
HRS SPOT 10 km x 10 km
MODE
RES. 1m
586 km
POL. SINGLE/DUAL
20
km 0
40
0
km MRS CRS
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PRESENT STATUS
DATA IS PROCESSED
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AIRBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (ASAR)
SPECIFICATIONS
FREQUENCY: 5.35 GHz
SWATH: 25 KM
RESOLUTION: 6 m
LOOK ANGLE: 7-74 DEG
AIRCRAFT VEL: 120 m/sec.
ALT: 8 Km
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Experimental Airborne SAR : E-SAR