CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- P-Band SAR
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Full Name
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P-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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Status
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Being developed
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Instrument Agencies
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ESA
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Maturity
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Instrument Type
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Imaging microwave radars 
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Geometry
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Side-looking
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Instrument Technology
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Imaging radar (SAR)
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Sampling
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Imaging
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Data Access
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Data Format
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NetCDF-4
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Measurements and Applications
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Forest biomass monitoring. Products are Forest Above Ground Biomass, Forest height and Forest Distrubance.
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Resolution Summary
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SLC: 9x50 m2, GRD: 50x50 m2
[Best Resolution: 50m]
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Swath Summary
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Stripmap with three swath (steered by rolling the satellite) with swath widths of 55, 53 and 45 km
[Max Swath: 153 km]
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Accuracy Summary
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NESZ: -27 dB; TAR: -18 dB; DTAR: -22 dB; Radiometric accuracy 0.5 dB (3 sigma); Radiometric stability: 0.3 dB (3 sigma)
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Waveband Summary
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P-band: 435 MHz; four polarization channels - HH, HV, VH, and VV - together with height measurements from polarimetric interferometry; incidence angles ranging from 23 to 31 degrees
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| P-Band (0.999 - 0.2998 GHz) |
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Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
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Instrument Missions
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