Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has released the first
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images taken from orbit by NovaSAR-1, a
technology demonstration mission that
was
launched into a 580km sun-synchronous orbit on 16 September 2018.
The full S-Band (2.0-2.3 GHz) SAR images were acquired using the
satellite’s stripmap mode at 6 metre resolution and are 20 km wide by
87 km long.
The cropped image of Sydney above was taken at night on November 1st
shows the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House.
CSIRO has secured a 10 per cent share of tasking and acquisition time on NovaSAR-1 over the next seven years.
See the
SSTL press release for more details. (Image credit: SSTL)
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