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
Being developed
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) |
Biomass - Biomass (2025 - 2030) |