• DocumentCode
    2115316
  • Title

    RADARSAT-2 program update

  • Author

    Brûlé, L. ; Baeggli, H.

  • Author_Institution
    Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, Que., Canada
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Firstpage
    1462
  • Abstract
    RADARSAT-2, scheduled for launch in 2004, will be the next Canadian commercial Earth observation SAR satellite. This paper presents an overview of the mission, some featured innovations, and the imaging capabilities.
  • Keywords
    geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; 5.4 GHz; C-band; Canadian satellite; RADARSAT; RADARSAT-2; SAR; SHF; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; radar remote sensing; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Aircraft manufacture; Commercialization; Job shop scheduling; Payloads; Phased arrays; Polarization; Receiving antennas; Satellites; Solid state circuits; Space technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7536-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026149
  • Filename
    1026149