CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- GEOSAR
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Full Name
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Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar
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Status
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Considered
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Mission Agencies
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ASI
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Launch Date
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2031
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Mission Links
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EOL Date
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2046
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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International Designator
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Orbit Type
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Geostationary
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Orbit Period
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1436 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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N/A
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Orbit Inclination
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Orbit Altitude
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35786 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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Repeat Cycle
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1 days
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Objectives and Applications
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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.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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