Measurements and Applications
All-weather images of ocean, land and ice for monitoring of land surface processes, ice, environmental monitoring, risk management, environmental resources, maritime management, Earth topographic mapping.
Full Name
COSMO-SkyMed di Seconda Generazione SAR
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
ASI
, MoD (Italy)
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging microwave radars 
Geometry
Side-looking
Instrument Technology
Imaging radar (SAR)
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Constrained Access
Data Format
HDF5,
GeoTiff,
GML JPEG2000,
STANAG 4545
Resolution
[range x azimuth]
Spotlight: 0.5x0.35 or 0.63x0.63 m (Single/Dual pol),
Stripmap: 3x3 m (Single/Dual/Quad pol), ScanSAR: 4x20 or 6x40 m (Single/Dual pol)
[Best Resolution: 0.35m]
Swath
'Dual polarisation modes: Spotlight [range x azimuth]: 7.3x3.1 or 10x10 km, Stripmap: 40 km, ScanSAR: 100 or 200 km.
Quad polarisation mode: 15 km.
[Max Swath: 200 km]
Waveband
Microwave: X-band (9.6 GHz) single-, dual- and quad- polarization
CSG-1 - COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation - 1 (2019 - 2026) |
| CSG-2 - COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation - 2 (2022 - 2028) |
CSG-3 - COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation - 3 (2025 - 2032) |
| CSG-4 - COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation - 4 (2026 - 2036) |