ISRO's dual frequency airborne SAR pre-cursor to NISAR

V. Manavala Ramanujam; T. J. V. D. Suneela; Rakesh Bhan

doi:10.1117/12.2228086

2 May 2016 ISRO's dual frequency airborne SAR pre-cursor to NISAR

V. Manavala Ramanujam, T. J. V. D. Suneela, Rakesh Bhan

Proceedings Volume 9881, Earth Observing Missions and Sensors: Development, Implementation, and Characterization IV; 98810A (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2228086
Event: SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, 2016, New Delhi, India

Abstract

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have jointly embarked on NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) operating in L-band and S-band, which will map Earth’s surface every 12 days. As a pre-cursor to the NISAR mission, ISRO is planning an airborne SAR (L&S band) which will deliver NISAR analogue data products to the science community. ISRO will develop all the hardware with the aim of adhering to system design aspects of NISAR to the maximum extent possible. It is a fully polarimetric stripmap SAR and can be operated in single, dual, compact, quasi-quad and full polarimetry modes. It has wide incidence angle coverage from 24°–77° with swath coverage from 5.5km to 15 km. Apart from simultaneous imaging operations, this system can also operate in standalone L/S SAR modes. This system is planned to operate from an aircraft platform with nominal altitude of 8000meters. Antenna for this SAR will be rigidly mounted to the aircraft, whereas, motion compensation will be implemented in the software processor to generate data products. Data products for this airborne SAR will be generated in slant & ground range azimuth dimension and geocoded in HDF5/Geotiff formats. This airborne SAR will help to prepare the Indian scientific community for optimum utilization of NISAR data. In-order to collect useful science data, airborne campaigns are planned from end of 2016 onwards.

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V. Manavala Ramanujam, T. J. V. D. Suneela, and Rakesh Bhan "ISRO's dual frequency airborne SAR pre-cursor to NISAR", Proc. SPIE 9881, Earth Observing Missions and Sensors: Development, Implementation, and Characterization IV, 98810A (2 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2228086

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Synthetic aperture radar

Calibration

S band

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Polarimetry

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