The NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission is entering its second phase of integration and test, preparing for a launch in January 2023. 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, and will operate primarily in a dual-polarimetric mode in an exact repeat orbit. The science teams at NASA and ISRO are working jointly to finalize the joint science plan, calibration and validation plan, and science products, and operational procedures.
Science Status of the NASA-ISRO SAR Mission
2021-07-11
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