Sentinel 1

Sentinel 1

Sentinel-1 Design and Specifications

Provider: European Space Agency (ESA)

Instrument: C-SAR

Sentinel-1 is a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mission, providing continuous all-weather, day-and-night imagery at C-band (centre frequency: 5.405 GHz), operating in four exclusive imaging modes with different spatial resolutions and coverages.

  • Revisit: 6 days over Europe, 6-12 days elsewhere
  • 10 meter resolution
  • C-band sensor
  • Dual polarization
  • Archive dating back to 2014
  • Systematic global coverage

Polarizations:

  • HH +HV or VV+VH

Delivered Product

  • 10 meter resolution
  • Sigma0 calibrated
  • Ground range detected and terrain corrected

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