COSMO-SkyMed: Calibration & validation resources and activities

Author

Calabrese, D. ; Cricenti, A. ; Grimani, V. ; Scaranari, D. ; Vigliotti, R. ; Covello, F. ; Marano, G.

Author_Institution

Thales Alenia Space, Rome

fYear

2008

fDate

26-30 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

COSMO-SkyMed is the largest Italian investment in Space Systems for Earth Observation, commissioned and funded by Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Italian Ministry of Defense (MoD). It consists of a constellation of Low Earth Orbit mid-sized satellites, each carrying a multi-mode high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument operating at X-band and a full featured Global Ground Segment to properly exploit space capabilities. In the framework of COSMO SkyMed mission, the CALVAL represents the system element that performs the calibration activities and the assessment of the image quality. In this paper main characteristics, driving requirements, technical choices and CALVAL first results are described.

Keywords

aerospace instrumentation; artificial satellites; calibration; geophysical signal processing; remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; COSMO-SkyMed; Space Systems for Earth Observation; calibration; image quality; low Earth orbit mid-sized satellites; synthetic aperture radar; validation resources; Calibration; Image analysis; Image quality; Image segmentation; Low earth orbit satellites; Performance analysis; Polarization; Radar cross section; Resource management; Synthetic aperture radar; COSMO SkyMed; Calibration; SAR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2008. RADAR '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1538-0

Electronic_ISBN

1097-5659

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2008.4721099

Filename

4721099