The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are developing the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, now planned for launch toward the end of 2022. The mission will exploit synthetic aperture radar to map Earth’s surface every 12 days, persistently on ascending and descending portions of the orbit, over all land and ice-covered surfaces. The mission’s primary objectives will be to study Earth land and ice deformation, and ecosystems, in areas of common interest to the US and Indian science communities. This single observatory solution with an L-band (24 cm wavelength) and S-band (10 cm wavelength) radar has a swath of over 240 km at fine resolution, using full polarimetry where needed. To achieve these unprecedented capabilities, both radars use a reflector-feed system, whereby the feed aperture elements are individually sampled to allow a scan-on-receive (“SweepSAR”) capability at both L-band and S-band. The L-band and S-band electronics and feed apertures, provided by NASA and ISRO respectively, share a common 12-m diameter deployable reflector/boom system, provided by NASA. These two radars, which can operate simultaneously, even with FPGA-based on-board digital beamforming and filtering to reduce data rates, produce prodigious amounts of data. Given the high data rates and ambitious coverage requirements, new technologies for high-rate Ka-band downlink complement these first-of-a-kind radar systems.


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    Titel :

    NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission Status


    Beteiligte:
    Kumar, Raj (Autor:in) / Rosen, Paul A. (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2021-05-10


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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