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\nOperational:<\/b> 2002-03-01 to 2012-04-08<\/p>\n
Acquisition Modes:<\/b><\/p>\n Frequency Bands: <\/b>C-band, VV, HH, VV\/HH, HV\/HH, or VH\/VV<\/p>\n Ground Resolution<\/b>: 30m\/150m\/1km<\/p>\n Product Types: <\/b> Single Look Complex (SLC), Precision, Medium-resolution<\/p>\n Data Format<\/b>: ENVISAT N1 Opening products: <\/b>Products can be opened by selecting the *.N1 file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n ASAR ProductHandbook.2_2<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ENVISAT mission (eoPortal)<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Frequency Bands: <\/b>P-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap<\/p>\n Product Types: <\/b> Single-look Complex Slant-range (SCS), Detected Ground-range Multi-looked (DGM), Co-registered Stack (STA), Stack-based biophysical product, Tile-based biophysical product<\/p>\n Polarizations: <\/b>Fully polarimetric SAR mission (HH, HV, VH, VV)<\/p>\n Opening products: <\/b>Products can be opened by selecting the XML file.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n Biomass mision<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Operational: <\/b>2018-12-03 to present<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> X-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes:<\/b> Stripmap (SM), Sliding Spotlight (SS), and Spotlight (SP)<\/p>\n Product Types:<\/b> Single Look Complex (SLC), Geocoded Terrain Corrected (GEO)<\/p>\n Polarizations: <\/b>Single-Pol HH<\/p>\n Opening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the json file.<\/p>\n Special Considerations:<\/b> Products can be ordered in GeoTiff formats.<\/p>\n For InSAR processing, SLC products should be ordered.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.capellaspace.com\/products\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.eoportal.org\/satellite-missions\/capella-x-sar#eop-quick-facts-section<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Operational:<\/b> 2007-06-08 to present<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> X-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight<\/p>\n Product Types<\/b>:<\/p>\n Polarizations:<\/b> Single Pol, non-coherent Dual Pol in Ping Pong Stripmap mode<\/p>\n Opening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the *.h5 file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.<\/p>\n Special Considerations: <\/b>Currently the SCS ScanSAR Huge Region is not supported<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/c-missions\/cosmo-skymed<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n ERS-1’s greatest contribution was in the field of SAR interferometry, where for the first time, precise topographic information could be routinely produced from space data. Polarizations: <\/b>All modes are Single Pol (VV). <\/p>\n Operational:<\/b> to 2011-09-05 Polarizations: <\/b>All modes are Single Pol (VV). <\/p>\n The constellation will have 18 satellites providing revisits of 1 hour.Operational:<\/b> 2018-01-12 to present<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> X-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight<\/p>\n Product Types:<\/b><\/p>\n Polarizations: <\/b>All modes are Single Pol (VV).<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.iceye.com\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n It carried a L-band SAR and a nadir point optical and side looking optical sensors.Operational:<\/b> 1992-02-11 to 1998-10-01<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> L-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap<\/p>\n Product Types:<\/b><\/p>\n Polarizations: <\/b>All modes are Single Pol (HH).<\/p>\n Opening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the Volume file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/j\/jers-1<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Kompsat-5 will be followed by a second SAR satellite Kompsat-6 in 2020.Operational:<\/b> 2013-08-22 to present<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> X-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight<\/p>\n Product Types: <\/b>SCS, GEC, WEC, GTC, WTC<\/p>\n Polarizations: <\/b>All modes are Single Pol (HH, HV, VV, VH).<\/p>\n Opening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the *_aux.xml file.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.si-imaging.com\/products<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/k\/kompsat-5<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Operational:<\/b> 2018-09-16 to present<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> S-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap, ScanSAR, ScanSAR Wide, Maritime Surveillance<\/p>\n Product Types:<\/b><\/p>\n Polarizations: <\/b>Single Pol (HH,VV), Dual Pol (any two of HH, VV, HV or VH) or tripolar (any 3 from HH, VV, HV or VH)<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/n\/novasar-1<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n ALOS included the PRISM, AVNIR-2, and PALSAR sensors. PALSAR was the SAR sensor. Frequency Band:<\/b> L-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap, ScanSAR<\/p>\n Product Types: <\/b>L1.1 (SLC), L1.5 (GRD)<\/p>\n Polarizations: <\/b>Single Pol (HH), Dual Pol (HH+HV)andFull Pol (HH+HV+VV+VH)<\/p>\n Opening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the Volume file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.<\/p>\n Special Considerations:<\/b> SLC data provided by JAXA are generated with Non-Zero-Doppler. The ALOS Deskewing operator should be applied prior to coregistration or terrain correction.<\/p>\n SLCs provided by ESA are in Zero-Doppler annotation and do not require deskewing.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.eorc.jaxa.jp\/ALOS\/en\/about\/palsar.htm<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/a\/alos<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Operational:<\/b> 2014-05-14 to present<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> L-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight<\/p>\n Product Types: <\/b>L1.1 (SLC), L1.5 (GRD), L2.1 (terrain corrected), L3.1 (Image quality-corrected)<\/p>\n Polarizations: <\/b>Single Pol (HH), Dual Pol andFull Pol (HH+HV+VV+VH)<\/p>\n Opening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the Volume file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.<\/p>\n Special Considerations:<\/b> Products can be ordered in CEOS and GeoTiff formats.<\/p>\n For InSAR processing, SLC products in CEOS format should be ordered.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.eorc.jaxa.jp\/ALOS\/en\/index.htm<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/a\/alos-2<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n The Paz satellite is operated in a constellation with the German TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X on the same orbit.<\/p>\n Operational:<\/b> 2018-02-22 to present<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> X-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight<\/p>\n Product Types:<\/b><\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/p\/paz<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Operational:<\/b> 1995-11-04 to 2013-03-29<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> C-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap, ScanSAR<\/p>\n Product Types:<\/b><\/p>\n Polarizations: <\/b>All modes are Single Pol (HH)<\/p>\n Opening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the Volume file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/satellites\/radarsat1\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/r\/radarsat-1<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Operational:<\/b> 2007-12-14 to present<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> C-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight<\/p>\n Product Types:<\/b><\/p>\n Polarizations:<\/b><\/p>\n Opening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the product.xml file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.<\/p>\n Special Considerations: <\/b>NITF format is not supported. GDAL translate can be used to convert.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/satellites\/radarsat2\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/r\/radarsat-2<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Data is acquired based on the observation scenarios of the government of Canada and cannot be tasked by the public. Archive data will be available free and open.<\/p>\n Operational: <\/b>2019-06-12 to present<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> C-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight, Ship Detection<\/p>\n Product Types:<\/b><\/p>\n Polarizations: <\/b>Single Pol (HH), Dual Pol and Full Pol (HH+HV+VV+VH), Compact Pol (RH+RV)<\/p>\n Opening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the product.xml file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/satellites\/radarsat<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/r\/rcm<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n The mission aimed to utilise all-weather, day-and-night SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) for applications in agriculture, geology, flood monitoring, and more. Frequency Band:<\/b> C-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight<\/p>\n Product Types:<\/b><\/p>\n Polarizations: <\/b>SinglePol, Dual Pol and Full Pol (HH+HV+VV+VH), Compact Pol (RH+RV, LH+LV)<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/Spacecraft\/risat-1<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/r\/risat-1<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Operational:<\/b> 2018-10-08 to present<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> L-band and X-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes:<\/b> SM (Stripmap), TN (Topsar Narrow) and TW (Topsar Wide)<\/p>\n Product Types:<\/b><\/p>\n Polarizations:<\/b><\/p>\n Opening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the xemt file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is not supported.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/saocom.veng.com.ar\/en\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.eoportal.org\/satellite-missions\/saocom<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Operational: <\/b>June 26, 1978 to October 10, 1978<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> L-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap<\/p>\n Product Types: <\/b>GRD Ground Range Detected<\/p>\n Polarizations: <\/b>All modes are single pol HH.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/www-prod.asf.alaska.edu\/seasat\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/s\/seasat<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Sentinel-1B experienced an anomaly which rendered it unable to deliver radar data in December 2021. It is set to be replaced by Sentinel-1C, which was launched in December 2024.<\/p>\n Operational: <\/b> Frequency Band:<\/b> C-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes:<\/b> Interferometric Wideswath (IW), Extra Wideswath (EW), Stripmap (SM) and Wave (WV)<\/p>\n Product Types:<\/b> Single Look Complex (SLC), Ground Range Detected (GRD), Ocean (OCN), Cloud Optimized GeoTiff (COG GRD), Extended Timing Annotation Dataset (ETAD).<\/p>\n Level 1 SLC:<\/b> L1 Single Look Complex (SLC) products consist of focused SAR data geo-referenced using orbit and attitude data from the satellite and provided in zero-Doppler slant-range geometry. The products include the full TX signal bandwidth and use complex samples preserving the phase information. Stripmap SLCs contain one image per swath and polarization band. SM contains 1 image per polarization band. IW, having 3 swaths, has 3 images in single pol and 6 images for dual pol. EW, having 5 swaths, has 5 images for single pol and 10 image for dual pol. Each sub-swath consists of a series of bursts. Each burst has been processed as a separate SLC image.<\/p>\n Level 1 GRD:<\/b> L1 Ground Range Detected (GRD) products consist of focused SAR data that has been projected to ground range using an Earth ellipsoid model, detected and multilooked. Phase information is lost. GRD products can be in one of three resolutions Full Resolution (FR), High Resolution (HR), or Medium Resolution (MR). L1 GRD products come in MR and HR for IW and EW modes, MR for WV mode and MR, HR and FR or SM mode.<\/p>\n Level 2 OCN:<\/b> The L2 Ocean products may include Ocean WInd field (OWI), Ocean SWell spectra (OSW) and surface Radial VeLocity (RVL) information derived from the SAR data. The OWI is a ground range gridded estimate of the surface wind speed and direction at 10m above the surface derived from the L1 GRD images of SM, IW or EW modes. The OSW is a two-dimensional ocean surface swell spectra and also includes an estimate of the wind speed and direction per swell spectrum. The OSW is generated from SM and WV modes only. For SM, there are multiple spectra derived from the L1 SLC image. For WV, there is one spectrum per vignette. The RVL is a ground range gridded difference between the measured L2 Doppler grid and the L1 calculated geometrical Doppler.<\/p>\n Polarizations:<\/b>Dual Pol VV+VH or HH+HV<\/p>\n Primary metadata file: <\/b>manifest.safe<\/p>\n Opening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the manifest.safe file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.<\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/sentinel.esa.int\/web\/sentinel\/user-guides\/sentinel-1-sar<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/c-missions\/copernicus-sentinel-1<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Operational: <\/b>2007-06-15 to present<\/p>\n Frequency Band:<\/b> X-band<\/p>\n Acquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight<\/p>\n Product Types:<\/b><\/p>\n Further Information: <\/b><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.dlr.de\/dlr\/en\/desktopdefault.aspx\/tabid-10377<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n
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\nPolarizations: <\/b>All modes are single pol except AP mode which offers non-coherent dual pol.<\/p>\nBiomass<\/h5>\n
Carrying a novel P-band synthetic aperture radar, the Biomass mission is designed to deliver crucial information about the state of our forests and how they are changing, and to further our knowledge of the role forests play in the carbon cycle.<\/summary>\n
\nOperational:<\/b> 2025-04-29 to present<\/p>\nCapella<\/h5>\n
Capella Space is an American space company that provides on-demand Earth observation imagery through a constellation of small satellites.<\/summary>\n
Cosmo-Skymed<\/h5>\n
Cosmo-Skymed is a dual use constellation of 4 SAR satellites developed by ASI.<\/summary>\n
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ERS-1<\/h5>\n
ESA’s first sun-synchronous polar-orbiting SAR mission acquired more than 1.5 million individual scenes.<\/summary>\n
\nOperational:<\/b> 1991-07-17 to 2000-03-13
\nFrequency Band:<\/b> C-band
\nAcquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap
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\nOpening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the Volume file for CEOS format products or the *.E1 file
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\nFurther Information: <\/b>
\nhttps:\/\/earth.esa.int\/web\/guest\/missions\/esa-operational-eo-missions\/ers\/<\/u><\/span><\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/e\/ers-1<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\nERS-2<\/h5>\n
The ERS-1 and ERS-2 tandem operations demonstrated SAR interferometry for various applications and paved the way for the definition of new dedicated SAR interferometry missions.<\/summary>\n
\nFrequency Band:<\/b> C-band
\nAcquisition Modes: <\/b>Stripmap
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\nOpening products:<\/b> Products can be opened by selecting the Volume file for CEOS format products or the *.E2 file
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\nFurther Information: <\/b>
\nhttps:\/\/earth.esa.int\/web\/guest\/missions\/esa-operational-eo-missions\/ers\/<\/u><\/span><\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/e\/ers-2<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\nIceye<\/h5>\n
Iceye is a commercial constellation of smallsat (100kg) SAR satellites.<\/summary>\n
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JERS<\/h5>\n
Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1 (JERS-1) was a satellite launched in 1992 by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).<\/summary>\n
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Kompsat-5<\/h5>\n
KOMPSAT-5 (Korean Multi-Purpose Satellite) is a commercial SAR mission operated by KARI and distributed by SIIS.<\/summary>\n
NovaSAR-S<\/h5>\n
NovaSAR-S 1 is a mission developed by SSTL to demonstrate a small Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mission designed for low-cost programmes and optimized for shared launch opportunities.<\/summary>\n
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PALSAR (ALOS-1)<\/h5>\n
The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), nicknamed “Daichi”, was a Japanese Earth-observation satellite, developed by JAXA.<\/summary>\n
\nOperational: <\/b>2006-01-24 to 2011-05-12<\/p>\nPALSAR (ALOS-2)<\/h5>\n
Advanced Land Observing Satellite 2 (ALOS 2) is a Japanese Earth-observation satellite, developed by JAXA.<\/summary>\n
PAZ<\/h5>\n
PAZ is a Spanish dual use Earth observation and reconnaissance satellite developed by Hisdesat.<\/summary>\n
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RADARSAT-1<\/h5>\n
Radarsat-1 was Canada’s first Earth Observation mission. The mission operated for 17 years.<\/summary>\n
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RADARSAT-2<\/h5>\n
Radarsat-2 is a commercial SAR mission from MDA and CSA.<\/summary>\n
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RADARSAT Constellation Mission<\/h5>\n
Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) is a SAR constellation of 3 satellites by the CSA.<\/summary>\n
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RISAT-1<\/h5>\n
RISAT-1 (Radar Imaging Satellite 1) was the first satellite imaging mission independently developed by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation).<\/summary>\n
\nOperational:<\/b> 2012-04-26 to 2017-07-26<\/p>\n\n
SAOCOM<\/h5>\n
SAOCOM is an Earth observation satellite constellation of Argentina’s space agency CONAE.<\/summary>\n
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SeaSat<\/h5>\n
SeaSat was the first civilian SAR satellite designed for monitoring of the oceans.<\/summary>\n
SENTINEL-1<\/h5>\n
Sentinel-1 is a constellation of three imaging radar satellites operated by ESA.<\/summary>\n
\nSentinel 1A: March 2014 \u2013 present
\nSentinel 1B: April 2016 \u2013 present
\nSentinel 1C: Dec. 2024 \u2013 present <\/p>\nTerraSAR-X<\/h5>\n
TerraSAR-X (TSX) is an Earth observation satellite mission. It provides high-resolution X-band data for use in climatology, environmental and disaster monitoring, hydrology, geology, oceanography and cartography.<\/summary>\n
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