Measurements and Applications
X-band synthetic aperture radar for maritime surveillance, vessel detection and classification, dark-vessel detection, illegal fishing monitoring, oil-spill monitoring and SAR-AIS data fusion.
Full Name
Varuna SAR
aka Varuna 2.0 SAR
Status
Being developed
Instrument Agencies
PierSight
Maturity
Medium Heritage
Instrument Type
Imaging microwave radars 
Geometry
Side-looking
Instrument Technology
Imaging radar (SAR)
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Constrained Access
Data Format
SICD/SIDD; GeoTIFF/COG for geocoded derived products
Swath
50 km Stripmap baseline
[Max Swath: 50 km]
Waveband
X-band, centre frequency ~9.5 GHz
Varuna - Varuna Constellation (2027 - 2032) |