Objectives and Applications
Acquire SAR images from quasi geostationary orbit, in order to provide: continuous monitoring of fast evolving geophysical processes, over large areas and with time scales of the order of hours; pairs of daily interferometric images (two interferometric passes per day over the entire national territory) for DInSAR applications; acquisitions with sub-daily frequency for change detection applications with intervals of the order of hours; different line of sight compared to LEO SAR missions thanks to the predominant north-south observation geometry; rapid access time to the area of ??interest and rapid response to events, with almost immediate availability of the acquired data.
Main applications: monitoring of landslides and ground displacements, seismic and volcanic phenomena, terrain and infrastructure stability, flood mapping, soil moisture and water vapor maps.
Full Name
Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar
Mission Status
Considered
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
2031
Mission Links
EOL Date
2041
Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
1436 minutes
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
35786 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
1 days
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