TriHex: Combining Formation Flying, General Circular Orbits, and Alias-Free Imaging, for High-Resolution L-Band Aperture Synthesis
| Autor: | Manuel Martín-Neira, Francesca Scala, Alberto M. Zurita, Martin Suess, Miguel Piera, Berthyl J. Duesmann, Matthias Drusch, Camilla Colombo, Don De Wilde, Josep Closa Soteras, Erio Gandini, Raúl Díez-García, Roger Oliva, Ignasi Corbella |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CommSensLab-UPC - Centre Específic de Recerca en Comunicació i Detecció UPC |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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Formation flying
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Teledetecció Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Teledetecció [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] General circular orbits (GCOs) Radiació -- Mesurament Radiation -- Measurement General Earth and Planetary Sciences Remote sensing Electrical and Electronic Engineering Aperture synthesis |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61:1-17 |
| ISSN: | 1558-0644 0196-2892 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tgrs.2023.3268560 |
| Popis: | The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), together with NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, is providing a wealth of information to the user community for a wide range of applications. Although both missions are still operational, they have significantly exceeded their design life time. For this reason, ESA is looking at future mission concepts, which would adequately address the requirements of the passive L-band community beyond SMOS and SMAP. This article proposes one mission concept, TriHex, which has been found capable of achieving high spatial resolution, radiometric resolution, and accuracy, approaching the user needs. This is possible by the combination of aperture synthesis, formation flying, the use of general circular orbits, and alias-free imaging. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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