The European GMES Sentinel-1 Radar Mission

Author

Attema, Evert ; Snoeij, Paul ; Davidson, Malcolm ; Floury, Nicolas ; Levrini, Guido ; Rommen, Björn ; Rosich, Betlem

Author_Institution

ESTEC, Eur. Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

The ESA Sentinels constitute the first series of operational satellites responding to the Earth observation needs of the EU-ESA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme. The GMES space component relies on existing and planned space assets as well as on new complementary developments by ESA. This paper describes the Sentinel-1 mission, an imaging synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation at C-band. It provides an overview of the mission requirements, its applications and the preliminary technical concept for the system.

Keywords

geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; C-band; EU-ESA; Earth Observation; European GMES Sentinel-1 Radar Mission; Global Monitoring for Environment and Security; SAR satellite constellation; synthetic aperture radar imaging; Interferometry; Monitoring; Oceans; Radar imaging; Satellites; Sea ice; Sea measurements; Space missions; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; GMES; RADAR; SAR; Spaceborne;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4778801

Filename

4778801