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R. Werninghaus
W. Pitz
Astrium GmbH
D-88039 Friedrichshafen, Germany
Wolfgang.Pitz@astrium-space.com
I.
INTRODUCTION
SPACE SEGMENT
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TERRASAR-X PERFORMANCE
Stripmap
ScanSAR
< 1500 km
<1500km
15 km, 1pol
30 km, 2pol
100 km
Geom. Resolution
along track
< 3 m, 1pol
< 6 m, 2pol
16 m
@ 1 look
Geom. Resolution
accross track
Abs. Radiom. Accur.
Noise equiv. 0 @ 45
Ambiguity Ratio
< 3 m, 1pol
< 6 m, 2pol
< 1 dB
< -19 dB
< -17 dB
16 m
@ 4 lks
< -19 dB
< -17 dB
< -19 dB
< -17 dB
Product Coverage
along track
Product Coverage
accross track
III.
Spotlight
5 km, hi-res
10 km, spot
10 km
GROUND SEGMENT
The overall TerraSAR-X Ground Segment and service infrastructure, which can be considered as interface between the
Space Segment provided by Astrium and the User Segment is
the central element for controlling and operating the
TerraSAR-X satellite, for calibrating its SAR instrument, and
for generating basic data products. The overall TerraSAR-X
ground segment and service infrastructure consists of two
major parts,
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Radar
Parameter
Generation
and
Instrument
Commanding: Based on user input, the mission planning
system generates requests for data takes. Each request
will be analyzed and the appropriate sequence of radar
parameters expressed as engineering values (PRF, DWP,
etc.) will be generated. This sequence will be transformed
into macro commands by the command generator and
finally transferred into the instrument binary language.
Internal calibration
External calibration
Calibration evaluation
Delivery of a calibration file for processing to the PGS
As TerraSAR-X will be an operational scientific mission with
commercial potential, product quality is of paramount
importance. Together with service reliability it will largely
decide the success or failure of the mission.
C. Payload Ground Segment
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