ERS-1/2 and its data used in operational systems

Author

Jensen, W.

Author_Institution

ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1044

Abstract

The European Space Agency ERS (European Remote Sensing) mission consists of two satellites, ERS-I launched in July 1991 and ERS-2 launched in April 1995 year. The satellites were designed to increase our scientific understanding of coastal zones, global ocean processes and polar regions and to develop economic and commercial applications. Based on an improved knowledge of ocean parameters and sea-state conditions, surveillance and planning of coastal and marine activities world-wide was defined as a primary target for applications development. This article describes the arrangement that have been made for developing various observational and commercial programmes and projects

Keywords

oceanographic techniques; radar applications; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; C-band; ERS-1; ERS-2; SHF; coastal; commercial application; geophysical measurement technique; micowave imaging; ocean; satellite remote sensing; sea coast; spaceborne radar; Costs; Earth; IEEE news; Monitoring; Oceans; Remote sensing; Satellites; Sea measurements; Space missions; Surveillance; Technology transfer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521133

Filename

521133