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ln recent years PHARUS, a phased array synthetic aperture radar airborne instrument, has been developed by a Dutch team of institutes. Now that the experimental value for PHARUS has been demonstrated, it is important to investigate the commercial potential of this instrument in an end-to-end system for operational services. ln the presented study, the PHARUS system as-is is described as well as its applications and potentials. ln addition, the market and the competitors are examined. It is concluded that: . both bathymetry and tropicalforest monitoring are valuable applications which should be investigated in more detail . for commercial applications, improvements of today's PHARUS instrument are needed: . for the bathymetry, the high-resolution mode being the most relevant one, faster data processing is highly desirable . for tropical forest monitoring, interferometry has to be implemented in support of an operational system . the end-to-end approach, advocated for these applications, provides a leading edge with respect to competitors . clustering of parties, providing the required capabilities for this approach, is a condition for commercial success The latter condition can be met by the formation of an industrial consortium, for which this study team can be viewed as a precursor. |
