THE TanDEM-X Mission: Overview and status

Gerhard Krieger,Manfred Zink,Hauke Fiedler,Irena Hajnsek,Marwan Younis,Sigurd Huber,Markus Bachmann,J. Hueso Gonzalez,Daniel Schulze,Johannes Böer,Marian Werner,Alberto Moreira

THE TanDEM-X Mission: Overview and status

2009

Gerhard Krieger
Manfred Zink
Hauke Fiedler
Irena Hajnsek
Marwan Younis
Sigurd Huber
Markus Bachmann
J. Hueso Gonzalez
Daniel Schulze
Johannes Böer
Marian Werner
Alberto Moreira

TanDEM-X (TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurements) is an innovative spaceborne radar interferometer mission that will be launched in autumn 2009. This paper gives an overview of the TanDEM-X mission concept, summarizes the basic products, illustrates the achievable performance, and provides some examples for new imaging modes and applications.

Keywords:

Elevation
Radar
Radar imaging
Interferometry
Remote sensing
Synthetic aperture radar
Tandem
Engineering
Bistatic radar
Digital elevation model
Systems engineering
Data acquisition
Electronic engineering

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