DocumentCode
556938
Title
PAZ instrument design and performance
Author
González, Andrés Solana ; Labriola, Massimo ; Soteras, Josep Closa ; Palma, Javier Sánchez
Author_Institution
EADS CASA Espacio, Madrid, Spain
fYear
2011
fDate
26-30 Sept. 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
PAZ is a highly flexible X-band SAR Satellite which primary objective is global Earth Observation to serve the strategic needs of the Spanish Government within the National Earth Observation Programme. The satellite will be capable to provide high quality SAR images with a variety of sizes and resolution ranging from medium over wide regions up to very high resolution (e.g. meter and sub-meter). This paper describes the architecture, calibration and performance of the entire PAZ instrument.
Keywords
artificial satellites; radar imaging; radar resolution; synthetic aperture radar; PAZ instrument design; PAZ instrument performance; SAR image; X-band SAR satellite; global Earth observation; resolution ranging; Antenna radiation patterns; Azimuth; Calibration; Instruments; Radar; Timing; PAZ; SAR; calibration; performance;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2011 3rd International Asia-Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location
Seoul
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1351-4
Type
conf
Filename
6086993
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