CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- GEO SAR
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Full Name
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Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar
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Status
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Proposed
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Instrument Agencies
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ASI
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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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Measurements and Applications
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Emergency services: monitoring of landslides, subsidence and ground deformation, seismic and volcanic phenomena, terrain and infrastructure stability, flood mapping.
Land: terrain stability, soil moisture and wetlands monitoring.
Atmosphere: 2D maps of water vapor concentration with high spatial and temporal resolution.
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Resolution Summary
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Range: 10 m (TBC)
Azimuth: 5-35 m (TBC)
[Best Resolution: 5m]
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Swath Summary
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250-350 km (TBC)
[Max Swath: 350 km]
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Accuracy Summary
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Waveband Summary
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Microwave: X-band
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Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
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Instrument Missions
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