TY - GEN
T1 - The Latest Status of Our Commercial Small Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite Constellation
AU - Obata, Toshihiro
AU - Arai, Motoyuki
AU - Asada, Shoichiro
AU - Imaizumi, Tomoyuki
AU - Saito, Hirobumi
AU - Shirasaka, Seiko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/9/26
Y1 - 2020/9/26
N2 - Expectations for SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellites that can observe a target area through clouds and during nighttime are emerging, especially in Asia where high cloud cover rates prevent from the satellite monitoring with optical sensors. We will build a constellation of the small SAR satellites to realize short term revisits, shorter than one day to take advantage of SAR sensors that can acquire data regardless of weather and time in a day. We expect the constellation expands needs of the SAR data to business and private decision making, and develop a market for commercial use. We will launch the first demo satellite in 2020. We are already preparing to build the second satellite and will make six satellite constellation until 2022. Our final goal is to build a constellation of 25 satellites.
AB - Expectations for SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellites that can observe a target area through clouds and during nighttime are emerging, especially in Asia where high cloud cover rates prevent from the satellite monitoring with optical sensors. We will build a constellation of the small SAR satellites to realize short term revisits, shorter than one day to take advantage of SAR sensors that can acquire data regardless of weather and time in a day. We expect the constellation expands needs of the SAR data to business and private decision making, and develop a market for commercial use. We will launch the first demo satellite in 2020. We are already preparing to build the second satellite and will make six satellite constellation until 2022. Our final goal is to build a constellation of 25 satellites.
KW - disaster monitoring
KW - infrastructure monitoring
KW - satellite data
KW - small satellite constellation
KW - synthetic aperture radar
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U2 - 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323284
DO - 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323284
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85102013373
T3 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
SP - 3578
EP - 3580
BT - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2020 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2020
Y2 - 26 September 2020 through 2 October 2020
ER -