RADARSAT-2 system operations and performance

Now in its eighth year of flight operations, the RADARSAT-2 space borne Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) remote sensing satellite continues to perform well and system performance targets continue to be met or bettered. There has been no measurable performance degradation during operations. The RADARSAT-2 mission remains the most operationally-focused commercial SAR mission available. This paper provides a status summary of satellite, system, and operations performance over the past year, and describes some highlights of recent enhancement. The status was last reported at IGARSS in 2014 [1].