DocumentCode
1463072
Title
Potentials and Limitations of Moon-Borne SAR Imaging
Author
Fornaro, Gianfranco ; Franceschetti, Giorgio ; Lombardini, Fabrizio ; Mori, Alessandro ; Calamia, Mario
Author_Institution
Consiglio Naz. delle Ric., Ist. per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell´´Ambiente, Naples, Italy
Volume
48
Issue
7
fYear
2010
fDate
7/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
3009
Lastpage
3019
Abstract
Moon exploitation is among the next space mission priorities. Earth observation (EO), which is traditionally implemented on artificial lower Earth orbit satellites, can be, in principle, extended to the platform constituted by the natural Earth satellite. With this regard, we investigate the features related to the EO by a possible Moon-borne synthetic aperture radar system in terms of imaging characteristics and potential applications, as well as of expected limitations.
Keywords
Moon; artificial satellites; radar interferometry; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; Earth observation; Moon-borne SAR imaging; artificial Earth orbit satellites; interferometry; natural Earth satellite; synthetic aperture radar system; Interferometry; Moon; synthetic aperture radar (SAR);
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0196-2892
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TGRS.2010.2041463
Filename
5443570
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