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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- ASAR (image mode)
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Full Name
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (Image mode)
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
ESA
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging microwave radars
Geometry
Cross-track scanning
Instrument Technology
Imaging radar (SAR)
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Constrained Access
Data Format
Measurements and Applications
All-weather images of ocean, land and ice for monitoring of land surface processes, sea and polar ice, sea state, and geological and hydrological applications.
Resolution Summary
Swath Summary
Accuracy Summary
Waveband Summary
MW (~0.1 cm - ~100 cm)
C-Band (8 - 4 GHz)
Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
Category
Parameter
Landscape topography
Land surface topography
Multi-purpose imagery (land)
Land surface imagery
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)
Ocean imagery and water leaving spectral radiance
Ocean surface winds
Wind speed over sea surface (horizontal)
Wind vector over sea surface (horizontal)
Ocean topography/currents
Ocean surface currents (vector)
Bathymetry
Ocean wave height and spectrum
Significant wave height
Sea ice cover, edge and thickness
Sea-ice cover
Sea-ice type
Iceberg fractional cover
Iceberg height
Glacier motion
Snow cover, edge and depth
Snow cover
Soil moisture
Soil moisture at the surface
Vegetation
Vegetation type
Land cover
Thematic Links
Global Climate Observing System Essential Climate Variables (GCOS ECVs)
ECV
Description
Product(s)
ECV Inventory 3.0 Record(s)
Land cover
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Ocean Colour
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Sea Ice
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search ECV Inventory records
Sea State
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search ECV Inventory records
Snow
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click here
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Soil Moisture
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search ECV Inventory records
Surface Currents
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search ECV Inventory records
Instrument Missions
Envisat - Environmental Satellite (2002 - 2012)
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