Title :
RADARSAT-1 image quality evolution to the extended mission
Author :
Srivastava, S.K. ; Cote, S. ; Le Dantec, P. ; Hawkins, R.K. ; Murnaghan, K.P.
Author_Institution :
Satellite Oper., Canadian Space Agency, Saint Hubert, Que.
Abstract :
RADARSAT-1, the first Canadian SAR remote sensing satellite has successfully completed its design lifetime of five and a quarter years. It is currently in extended mission operation meeting customer demands. The Image Quality Control program is kept fully operational, and measured results indicate image quality performance is maintained better than system specification. This paper briefly describes image quality results and recalibration work
Keywords :
data acquisition; forestry; image processing; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; Amazon Rainforest; Canadian SAR remote sensing satellite; Image Quality Control program; RADARSAT-1 recalibration; Synthetic Aperture Radar; Antenna measurements; Aperture antennas; Azimuth; Calibration; Chirp; Heating; Image quality; Radar tracking; Radiometry; Remote sensing;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8742-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1368632
