Title :
The SIR-C/X-SAR mission
Author :
Way, JoBea ; Evans, Diane ; Elachi, Charles
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
The Shuttle Imaging Radar-C and X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) is a cooperative experiment between NASA, the German space agency (DARA), and the Italian space agency (ASI). The experiment is the next evolutionary step in NASA´s Spaceborne imaging radar (SIR) program that began with the Seasat SAR in 1978, and continued with SIR-A in 1981 and SIR-B in 1984. The program will eventually lead to the Earth Observing System (EOS) SAR later in this decade. The latest status of this land surface remote sensing mission is described
Keywords :
geophysical techniques; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; SAR; SIR; SIR-C; SIR-C/X-SAR mission; Space Shuttle; X-SAR; land surface radar remote sensing; measurement technique; synthetic aperture radar; Earth Observing System; Instruments; Laboratories; Propulsion; Radar imaging; Radar polarimetry; Space shuttles; Space technology; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1993. IGARSS '93. Better Understanding of Earth Environment., International
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1240-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322262
