Tandem-L: Design Concepts for a Next-Generation Spaceborne SAR System

Huber S, Villano M, Younis M, Krieger G, Moreira A, Grafmöller B, Wolters R (2016)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2016

Edited Volumes: Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR

Conference Proceedings Title: European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR)

Abstract

Tandem-L is a fully polarimetric bistatic spaceborne SARmission with the goal of monitoring dynamic processes on th Earth's surface. Important applications are regular inventories of the global-scale biomass, systematic measurements o surface deformations with millimeter accuracy, the generation of digital surface and terrain models, as well as disaste monitoring related to fooding events, earthquakes and volcano eruptions. To serve this wide variety of services an applications, the imaging and mapping requirements exceed those of state-of-The-Art missions by at least one order o magnitude Such a pioneering mission necessarily initiates new technology developments in the felds of radar hardware, dat processing and data distribution. The Tandem-L radar satellites employ large unfoldable mesh refector antennas which have been identifed ideal for highly sensitive, high-resolution wide-swath SAR acquisitions. This paper give an overview of the system concepts of next-generation SAR sensors like Tandem-L and details some of the desig aspects and optimisation potentials leading to an improved performance and fullling the user requirements.

Authors with CRIS profile

Gerhard Krieger

Additional Organisation(s)

Professur für Kognitive Radarsysteme für die Fernerkundung

Involved external institutions

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) / German Aerospace Center

Germany (DE) Airbus Defence and Space GmbH

Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Huber, S., Villano, M., Younis, M., Krieger, G., Moreira, A., Grafmöller, B., & Wolters, R. (2016). Tandem-L: Design Concepts for a Next-Generation Spaceborne SAR System. In European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR).

MLA:

Huber, Sigurd, et al. "Tandem-L: Design Concepts for a Next-Generation Spaceborne SAR System." Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR 2016 2016.

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