Measurements and Applications
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.
Full Name
Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar
Status
Proposed
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging microwave radars 
Geometry
Side-looking
Instrument Technology
Imaging radar (SAR)
Sampling
Imaging
Resolution
Range: 10 m (TBC)
Azimuth: 5-35 m (TBC)
[Best Resolution: 5m]
Swath
250-350 km (TBC)
[Max Swath: 350 km]
Waveband
Microwave: X-band