Measurements and Applications
Forest biomass monitoring. Products are Forest Above Ground Biomass, Forest height and Forest Distrubance.
Full Name
P-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging microwave radars 
Geometry
Side-looking
Instrument Technology
Imaging radar (SAR)
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Data Format
NetCDF-4
Resolution
SLC: 9x50 m2, GRD: 50x50 m2
[Best Resolution: 50m]
Swath
Stripmap with three swath (steered by rolling the satellite) with swath widths of 55, 53 and 45 km
[Max Swath: 153 km]
Accuracy
NESZ: -27 dB; TAR: -18 dB; DTAR: -22 dB; Radiometric accuracy 0.5 dB (3 sigma); Radiometric stability: 0.3 dB (3 sigma)
Waveband
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
| P-Band (0.999 - 0.2998 GHz) |
Compiled from the 2026 Extended Parameters Survey, agency-nominated technical contacts and published user guides; not yet collected through the annual CEOS MIM survey.
Centre Frequency
0.435 GHz
Polarisation Channels
HH · HV · VV · VH
Look Direction
Left (nominal Left)
Antenna
Deployable reflector with an offset feed array. 12 m diameter. — 12 × 12 m
Source
2026 Extended Parameters Survey (ESA, 2026-09-24)
Compiled from the 2026 Extended Parameters Survey, agency-nominated technical contacts and published user guides; not yet collected through the annual CEOS MIM survey.
| Mode | Resolution az × rg (m) | Swath (km) | Incidence (°) | Polarisation | NESZ (dB) | Bandwidth (MHz) |
|---|
| StripMap S1 S1 QuadPol Interferometry | 7.92 × 53.45 | 65.07 | 23.91–25.51 | HH+HV+VH+VV | -31 | 6 |
| StripMap S2 S2 QuadPol Interferometry | 7.92 × 54.4 | 66.74 | 24.4–28.92 | HH+HV+VH+VV | -32 | 6 |
| StripMap S3 S3 QuadPol Interferometry | 7.92 × 54.23 | 58.25 | 27.72–32.04 | HH+HV+VH+VV | -35 | 6 |