SIRAL the radar altimeter for the CryoSat mission, pre-launch performances

Author

Rey, L. ; De Château-Thierry, P. ; Phalippou, L. ; Calvary, P. ; Mavrocordatos, C.

Author_Institution

Alcatel Space Industrie, Toulouse, France

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2004

Lastpage

671

Abstract

The development phase of the SAR Interferometer Radar Altimeter (SIRAL) is in the final stage in Alcatel Space and during year 2004 the Engineering and the Flight Models is tested before delivery to the Mission Prime ASTRIUM GmbH. This ESA mission will be used to estimate - on a global scale - the fluctuations in mass of sea-ice and land-ice. This paper gives a detailed presentation of the microwave and processing units developed, followed by a survey of the pre-launch performances.

Keywords

ice; interferometry; radar altimetry; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; synthetic aperture radar; AD 2004; Alcatel Space; CryoSat payload; ESA mission; European Space Agency; Mission Prime ASTRIUM GmbH; SAR Interferometer Radar Altimeter; SIRAL pre-launch performance; Synthetic Aperture Radar; engineering/flight model; microwave/processing unit; sea-ice/land-ice mass fluctuation; Demodulation; Instruments; Pulse measurements; Radar measurements; Radar tracking; Reflector antennas; Sea ice; Spaceborne radar; Telephony; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8742-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1369118

Filename

1369118