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This paper describes the wind scatterometer instrument on board the MetOp Second Generation satellites and the associated antennas, which are under development for launch in the 2020 time-frame. The new scatterometer instrument, operating at C-band (5.3 GHz), requires 6 fan-beams in order to measure ocean backscatter at different azimuth angles with respect to the satellite track. Vertical polarization...
As a result of down-selection after Phase 0 for the 7th Earth Explorer mission following the User Consultation Meeting held in Lisbon, Portugal in Jan 2009, three candidate missions were selected for further feasibility investigations (Phase A). Each of the candidate missions is now being defined in detail through two parallel and competing industrial system studies and supporting complementary science...
COSMO-SkyMed is the Italian Remote Sensing programme which foresees the utilization of a constellation of four SAR Satellites in Low Earth Orbit, dedicated to the management, control and exploitation of Earth resources for civil and defence applications. The program is completely funded by the Italian Government, mainly through the Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR) and the Ministry of Defence (I-AD)...
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