The NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) is scheduled for launch early in 2024 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), at Sriharikota, near Chennai, India. This mission is the result of a collaboration between NASA and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), where NASA has contributed elements of the mission such as an L-band SAR, and ISRO has contributed other elements, such as an S-band SAR. After successful launch, the NISAR mission will collect left-looking L-band SAR data over most of the Earth’s land areas twice during every 12-day exact repeat orbit. (once while in an ascending orbit direction and once while in a descending orbit direction). NASA and ISRO have individual and joint requirements on the mission that include the performance of the imaging radars onboard the spacecraft. For example, NASA must demonstrate that this L-band SAR will achieve a set of identified science measurement accuracy requirements that span Ecosystem science, Solid Earth science, and Cryosphere science disciplines. Likewise, ISRO has several applications objectives on both the L-band and S-band data from NISAR that the ISRO science team and project will be developing and testing. Pre-launch and post-launch activities have been planned to validate that these requirements are met. Here, we will discuss how the NASA plans are being executed and will present any initial results at the conference.

The NASA ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission - validation of science measurement requirements / Chapman, Bruce; Anconitano, Giovanni; Borsa, Adrian; Christensen, Alexandra; Cushman, Kc; Das, Anup; Donnellan, Andrea; Downs, Brandi; Fielding, Eric; Holt, Ben; Joughin, Ian; Kellndorfer, Josef; Kim, Seungbum; Mcdonald, Kyle; Meyer, Franz J; Oliver-Cabrera, Talib; Parra, Adriana; Patnai, C.; Peacock, Anne Marie; Pinto, Naiara; Putrevu, Deepak; Rosen, Paul; Saatchi, Sassan; Simons, Mark; Siqueira, Paul; Taglialatela, Catalina; Tymofyeyeva, Ekaterina; Vaccaro, Adam; Zinke, Rob; Zwieback, Simon. - (2024), pp. 6623-6627. (Intervento presentato al convegno IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium tenutosi a Athens; Greece) [10.1109/igarss53475.2024.10640858].

The NASA ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission - validation of science measurement requirements

Anconitano, Giovanni;
2024

Abstract

The NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) is scheduled for launch early in 2024 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), at Sriharikota, near Chennai, India. This mission is the result of a collaboration between NASA and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), where NASA has contributed elements of the mission such as an L-band SAR, and ISRO has contributed other elements, such as an S-band SAR. After successful launch, the NISAR mission will collect left-looking L-band SAR data over most of the Earth’s land areas twice during every 12-day exact repeat orbit. (once while in an ascending orbit direction and once while in a descending orbit direction). NASA and ISRO have individual and joint requirements on the mission that include the performance of the imaging radars onboard the spacecraft. For example, NASA must demonstrate that this L-band SAR will achieve a set of identified science measurement accuracy requirements that span Ecosystem science, Solid Earth science, and Cryosphere science disciplines. Likewise, ISRO has several applications objectives on both the L-band and S-band data from NISAR that the ISRO science team and project will be developing and testing. Pre-launch and post-launch activities have been planned to validate that these requirements are met. Here, we will discuss how the NASA plans are being executed and will present any initial results at the conference.
2024
IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
NISAR; SAR; CalVal
04 Pubblicazione in atti di convegno::04b Atto di convegno in volume
The NASA ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission - validation of science measurement requirements / Chapman, Bruce; Anconitano, Giovanni; Borsa, Adrian; Christensen, Alexandra; Cushman, Kc; Das, Anup; Donnellan, Andrea; Downs, Brandi; Fielding, Eric; Holt, Ben; Joughin, Ian; Kellndorfer, Josef; Kim, Seungbum; Mcdonald, Kyle; Meyer, Franz J; Oliver-Cabrera, Talib; Parra, Adriana; Patnai, C.; Peacock, Anne Marie; Pinto, Naiara; Putrevu, Deepak; Rosen, Paul; Saatchi, Sassan; Simons, Mark; Siqueira, Paul; Taglialatela, Catalina; Tymofyeyeva, Ekaterina; Vaccaro, Adam; Zinke, Rob; Zwieback, Simon. - (2024), pp. 6623-6627. (Intervento presentato al convegno IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium tenutosi a Athens; Greece) [10.1109/igarss53475.2024.10640858].
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