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WANG Yingjie, WANG Robert, YU Weidong, et al. See-Earth: SAR constellation with dense time-series for multi-dimensional environmental monitoring of the earth[J]. Journal of Radars, 2021, 10(6): 842–864. doi: 10.12000/JR21176
Citation: WANG Yingjie, WANG Robert, YU Weidong, et al. See-Earth: SAR constellation with dense time-series for multi-dimensional environmental monitoring of the earth[J]. Journal of Radars, 2021, 10(6): 842–864. doi: 10.12000/JR21176
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See-Earth: SAR Constellation with Dense Time-SEries for Multi-dimensional Environmental Monitoring of the Earth

doi: 10.12000/JR21176
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    Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100190, China

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    The 14th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Nanjing 210019, China

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    Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center, Ministry of Land and Resources, Beijing 100083, China

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    Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center, Ministry of Natural Resources, Beijing 100048, China

Funds:  The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61825106)
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  • Corresponding author: WANG Robert, yuwang@mail.ie.ac.cn; YU Weidong, ywd@mail.ie.ac.cn
  • Received Date: 2021-11-11
  • Accepted Date: 2021-12-17
  • Rev Recd Date: 2021-12-17
    • Available Online: 2021-12-21
  • Publish Date: 2021-12-28
    Abstract
  • The limitations of satellite versatility, application dimensions, and wide-area observation efficiency are major issues impeding the development of Chinese spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). China lacks a satellite system that can realize long-term, stable, and high-performance environmental dynamic monitoring oriented to the world. As the international environment becomes increasingly complex, China urgently needs to develop a SAR satellite system for global dynamic environmental monitoring to achieve large-scale, high-revisit, long-term, stable, and high-precision observations. This paper proposes a SAR Constellation with Dense Time-S E ries for MultiDimensional E nvironmental Monitoring of the Earth (See-Earth) plan. In addition, the system conception, technical architectures, performance analysis, application potential, and new system expansion are discussed.

     

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