Development of China’s spaceborne SAR satellite, processing strategy, and application: take Gaofen-3 series as an example

Autor: Guo Zhang, Shunyao Wang, Zhenwei Chen, Yuzhi Zheng, Ruishan Zhao, Taoyang Wang, Yu Zhu, Xinzhe Yuan, Wei Wu, Weitao Chen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Geo-spatial Information Science, Pp 1-16 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 10095020
1993-5153
1009-5020
DOI: 10.1080/10095020.2022.2124129
Popis: After mastering the key technologies of manufacturing spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), China’s SAR satellites have been successfully launched into space. As the only civil microwave satellite listed in the “National High-resolution Earth Observation System Major Project,” the Gaofen-3 (GF-3) 01 satellite is the first C-band multi-polarization SAR satellite with a resolution of 1 m. GF-3 series satellites stand out among civil SAR satellites worldwide because of their high resolution, wide swath, high geometric radiation quality, multiple imaging modes, and long operation time. Taking GF-3 series satellites as an example, this study introduces the development of China’s civil SAR satellites, as well as their processing strategies and applications. The success of the GF-3 series satellites shows that China’s SAR remote sensing technology has stepped into a new era of high-quality and high-precision Earth observations.
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