RADARSAT-2 system operations and performance

Now in its seventh year of flight operations, the RADARSAT-2 spaceborne Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) remote sensing satellite continues to perform well and system performance targets continue to be met or bettered. This paper provides a status summary of the satellite, system, and operations performance over the past year, describes some highlights of recent challenges, changes, and achievements, and outlines some enhancement work in progress and in future plans. The status was last reported at IGARSS in 2012 [1].