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
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