Title :
Biomass, CoReH2O, PREMIER: ESA´s candidate 7th Earth Explorer Missions
Author :
Arcioni, M. ; Bensi, P. ; Bézy, J.L. ; Carnicero, B. ; Davidson, M. ; Drinkwater, M. ; Fois, F. ; Gabriele, A. ; Haagmans, R. ; Hélière, F. ; Ingmann, P. ; Kangas, V. ; Kern, M. ; Kraft, S. ; Langen, J. ; Lecuyot, A. ; Lin, C.-C. ; Meynart, R. ; Scipal, K
Author_Institution :
ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Abstract :
The European Space Agency (ESA) released a Call for Proposals for the next Earth Explorer Core Mission in March 2005, with the aim to select the 7th Earth Explorer (EE-7) mission for launch in the next decade. Twenty-four proposals were received and subject to scientific and technical assessment. Six candidate missions were selected and further investigated in the preliminary feasibility studies (Phase 0). A further down-selection was made after the User Consultation Meeting held in Lisbon, Portugal in January 2009. Three candidate missions were selected for further feasibility investigations (phase A). Each of the candidate missions is now being defined in detail through two parallel and competing industrial studies and many complementary science and technology studies, aiming to the final down-selection in 2011/12, followed by the mission implementation with a planned launch in the 2016/17 timeframe.
Keywords :
geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; remote sensing; BIOMASS satellite; CoReH2O mission; Earth Explorer Core Mission; European Space Agency; PREMIER mission; User Consultation Meeting; candidate missions; phase-A study; Antennas; Biomass; Earth; Instruments; Satellites; Snow; Spatial resolution;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5651853
