Sentinel-1在轨校准策略研究.pdfVIP

In-OrbitCalibrationStrategyforSentinel-1

aaaa

PaulSnoeij,IgnacioNavas-Traver,DirkGeudtner,AllanØstergaard,

aaabbb

BjornRomen,MichaelBrown,RamonTorres,MarcoSchwerdt,BjörnDöring,ManfredZink

aEuropeanSpaceResearchTechnologyCentre(ESTEC),EuropeanSpaceAgency(ESA),

Noordwijk,TheNetherlands;

bMicrowaveandRadarInstitute,GermanAerospaceCenter(DLR),Weßling,Germany

TheESASentinelsconstitutethefirstseriesofoperationalsatellitesrespondingtotheEarthObservationneedsoftheEU-

ESAGlobalMonitoringforEnvironmentandSecurity(GMES)programme.TheGMESspacecomponentrelieson

existingandnnedspaceassetsaswellasonnewcomplementarydevelopmentsbyESA.IncontrasttoSARsystems

alreadyexistinginC-bandlikeASAR/ENVISATorRADARSAT-2,highdemandsontheradiometricstabilityand

accuracyaremadeforSentinel-1.ThemissiondependsonthemethodofcalibratingtheentireSentinel-1systeminan

efficientway.Thispaperdescribesthestrategyandprovidesanofallactivitiesrequiredforin-flightcalibrationof

Sentinel-1.

Keywords:GMES,Sentinel-1,CSAR,Calibration,Validation

1.INTRODUCTION

TheSentinel-1syntheticapertureradar(SAR)constellationrepresentsacompletelynewapproac