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
NOX 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: 1.5 m; Stripmap: 3m; ScanSAR: 6-10m
[Best Resolution: 1.5m]
Swath
Spotlight: 10 km; Stripmap: 30 km; ScanSAR: 50-80 km
[Max Swath: 10 km]
Waveband
Microwave: X-band (7-12.5 GHz) single-polarization (VV)
NOX-SAR - NOX Synthetic Aperture Radar Constellation (IRIDE) (2026 - 2031) |