The ERS-1 Active Microwave Instrumentation (AMI) design constraints
Abstract
The requirements for the ERS-1 Active Microwave Instrument (AMI) to act as a wind scatterometer, a wave scatterometer and an imaging radar are considered. For the second two instruments the AMI is configured to operate as a synthetic aperture radar and performance requirements in these two modes are very similar; for the first instrument it is configured to operate as a noncoherent pulsed radar. Design constraints resulting from function requirements, on-board radar components, the ERS-1 platform and interfaces, and ground processing equipment are considered.
- Publication:
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European Remote Sensing Opportunities: Systems, Sensors, and Applications
- Pub Date:
- June 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985urso.symp...13S
- Keywords:
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- Ers-1 (Esa Satellite);
- Microwave Sensors;
- Systems Engineering;
- Functional Design Specifications;
- Radar Imagery;
- Scatterometers;
- Synthetic Aperture Radar;
- Spacecraft Instrumentation