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Abstract | ||
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The TerraSAR-L system, currently being designed in a Phase B definition study, provides ESA with its most powerful radar-imaging programme to date. The platform is optimized for and built around the 11 mtimes2.9 m active phased array antenna of the L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (L-SAR). The L-SAR features, on top of standard Stripmap and ScanSAR operations, full polarimetric capabilities, repeat-pass ScanSAR interferometry and a Wave Mode. Specification of the L-SAR has been guided by a careful analysis of the product requirements resulting in a robust baseline design with considerable margins. Besides, a major contribution to applications in areas of climate change and oceanography, the TerraSAR-L design responds specifically to requirements from interferometric applications. One key element of the TerraSAR-L operations strategy is a long-term systematic and repetitive acquisition scenario to ensure consistent data archives and to maximize the scientific and commercial exploitation of this SAR system. The other important factor is a systematic processing of all acquired data to Single-look Slant-range Complex (SSC) products to facilitate higher level product generation and services based on these products. This paper describes the TerraSAR-L basic product tree and explains the rationale behind. The nominal TerraSAR-L imaging modes are introduced and their performance characteristics are described. The generation concept of multi-look detected products based consistently on complex products - generated either at an intermediate stage during ground segment processing or serving as input product into a stand-alone tool - is introduced. A modular SAR processor design using the same complex product generation algorithms as far as possible independent of the underlying imaging mode is addressed |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2004 | 10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370164 | Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
antenna phased arrays,atmospheric measuring apparatus,atmospheric techniques,climatology,geophysical equipment,oceanographic equipment,oceanographic techniques,oceanography,phased array radar,radar antennas,radar imaging,radar polarimetry,remote sensing by radar,synthetic aperture radar,ESA,L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar,Phase B definition,SSC,Single-look Slant-range Complex,TerraSAR-L design,TerraSAR-L imaging modes,TerraSAR-L operations,TerraSAR-L system,Wave Mode,climate change,ground segment processing,imaging mode,modular SAR processor design,oceanography,pass ScanSAR interferometry,phased array antenna,polarimetric capability,radar-imaging programme,robust baseline design,standard ScanSAR operations,standard Stripmap operations | Radar imaging,Data processing,Polarimetry,Synthetic aperture radar,Computer science,Remote sensing,Phased array,Processor design,Modular design,Ground segment | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | ISBN |
7 | 2153-6996 | 0-7803-8742-2 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
1 | 0.63 | 3 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Schattler, B. | 1 | 1 | 0.63 |
| Thomas Fritz | 2 | 930 | 67.66 |
| M. Eineder | 3 | 167 | 43.21 |
| Helko Breit | 4 | 368 | 75.29 |