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. Developed by TAS-I company.
Full Name
New Italian Micro Bus Synthetic Aperture Radar
Status
Being developed
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging microwave radars 
Geometry
Side-looking
Instrument Technology
Imaging radar (SAR)
Sampling
Imaging
Resolution
Spotlight: 0.5 m; Stripmap: 2.7m; ScanSAR: 11-17m
[Best Resolution: 0.5m]
Swath
Spotlight: 2.5 km; Stripmap: 27.5 km; ScanSAR: 100 km
[Max Swath: 2 km]
Waveband
Microwave: X-band (7-12.5 GHz) single-polarization (VV)
NIMBUS-SAR - New Italian Micro Bus - Synthetic Aperture Radar Constellation (IRIDE) (2026 - 2031) |