DocumentCode
2055449
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
fYear
1993
fDate
18-21 Aug 1993
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322262
Filename
322262
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