The Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) was an airborne P-, L-, and C-band radar system developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It was able to penetrate through clouds and operate at night to provide measurements of radar backscatter. It also could penetrate forest canopy, dry snow cover, and sand in two of its imaging modes. AIRSAR operated across three frequencies: 0.45 GHz, 1.26 GHz, and 5.31 GHz. It had a horizontal resolution of 10 m and a swath width of around 10-15 km at a flight altitude of 8,000 m. AIRSAR is now retired and flew its last mission in 2004.
Instrument Details
- Radar
- Earth Science > Spectral/engineering > Radar > Radar BackscatterEarth Science > Spectral/engineering > Radar > Radar Imagery
- Land Surface
- N/A
- 10 m
- 0.45 GHz, 1.26 GHz, 5.31 GHz
- https://nsidc.org/sites/default/files/the_nasajpl_airborne_synthetic_aperture_radar_system.pdf
Yunling Lou
Yunling Lou
JPL
NASA
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