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CCRS-SAR
Canada Center for Remote Sensing Synthetic Aperture Radar

The CCRS-SAR was an airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) operated by the Canada Center for Remote Sensing (CCRS) from the mid-1980s to 1996. It consisted of two radars operating in the C-band (5.3 GHz) and X-band (9.25 GHz). Both radars had dual-channel receivers and dual-polarized antennas and collected radar imagery of land, sea ice, and ocean surfaces. The C-band radar had a 3 dB range resolution of 5.7 m in high-resolution mode, while the X-band radar had a range resolution of 4.8 m. CCRS-SAR had a slant range swath width of 16.4 km and azimuth resolution of 6 m in high-resolution mode.

NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory passes Antarctica's tallest peak, Mount Vinson, on Oct. 22, 2012, during a flight over the continent to measure changes in the massive ice sheet and sea ice. Credit: NASA/Michael Studinger (Photography courtesy NASA Images)

Overview

Instrument Details

Radar
Earth Science > Spectral/engineering > Radar > Radar Imagery
Earth Science > Spectral/engineering > Radar
Full Column Profile
Variable
5.7 m (C-band), 4.8 m (X-band)
5.30 GHz, 9.25 GHz
https://doi.org/10.1109/36.101371External Link

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Instrument Operation

BOREAS

Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study

1994—1996
Boreal forests of central Canada
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2 Deployments
· 303 Data Products

Data Products