Sentinel-1 Next Generation: Trade-offs and Assessment of Mission Performance

• Main Authors: Zonno, Mariantonietta, Bordoni, Federica, Matar, Jalal, Queiroz de Almeida, Felipe, Sanjuan Ferrer, Maria Jose, Younis, Marwan, Rodriguez Cassola, Marc, Krieger, Gerhard
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: German
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Radarsysteme; North Pole; The Sentinel; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/127301/; https://elib.dlr.de/127301/1/Performance%20assessment%20for%20the%20high%20resolution%20and%20wide%20swath.pdf

ESA’s observation program has a consolidated heritage lasting for more than two decades with C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems (SAR). In this framework, the current C-band Sentinel-1 observations constitute an essential component of Copernicus program for the monitoring of the Earth characteri...