TanDEM-X commissioning phase status

Author

Gonzalez, Jaime Hueso ; Bachmann, Markus ; Hofmann, Harald

Author_Institution

German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

2633

Lastpage

2635

Abstract

After the recent launch of the TanDEM-X satellite, the twin of TerraSAR-X, its demanding commissioning phase has started. On the one hand, it has to ensure the same monostatic operation performance as TerraSAR-X. On the other hand, the bistatic aspects have to be verified, which are essential for the acquisition of the global digital elevation model (DEM). This has to be done in a limited time period in order to keep the required nominal operation duration. This paper shows the summary of the commissioning phase activities and its running status.

Keywords

artificial satellites; commissioning; data acquisition; digital elevation models; remote sensing; TanDEM-X satellite; TerraSAR-X twin; data acquisition; global digital elevation model; monostatic operation performance; nominal operation duration; satellite commissioning phase status; Accuracy; Calibration; Instruments; Orbits; Satellites; Synchronization; Synthetic aperture radar; TanDEM-X; TerraSAR-X; bistatic SAR; commissioning phase; formation flying;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5649347

Filename

5649347