Radar Satellite Constellation TerraSAR-X/PAZ
In 2012 , Hisdesat signed an agreement with Airbus Defense and Space (formerly Astrium GEO Services) for the creation of a constellation of satellites using radar coordinated resources of PAZ, TerraSAR -X and TanDEM –X, available to customers.
Among the advantages the constellation provides are:
- Significant reduction of the revisit time (will be between 4 and 7 days), important for interferometric processes and applications with strict timing requirements.
- Improving procurement capacity for surveillance applications and map generation.
- Ease of making requests through a single portal requests and a single catalog.
The creation of the constellation responds to the growing demand of the industry’s earth observation based on radar technology for coordinating private missions to market products that comply fully with the expectations of existing applications and provide benefits for new ones.
Radar Satellite Constellation TerraSAR-X/PAZ
In 2012 , Hisdesat signed an agreement with Airbus Defense and Space (formerly Astrium GEO Services) for the creation of a constellation of satellites using radar coordinated resources of PAZ, TerraSAR -X and TanDEM –X, available to customers.
Among the advantages the constellation provides are:
- Significant reduction of the revisit time (will be between 4 and 7 days), important for interferometric processes and applications with strict timing requirements.
- Improving procurement capacity for surveillance applications and map generation.
- Ease of making requests through a single portal requests and a single catalog.
The creation of the constellation responds to the growing demand of the industry’s earth observation based on radar technology for coordinating private missions to market products that comply fully with the expectations of existing applications and provide benefits for new ones.
Satellites use the same orbit and have identical scan width and imaging modes. The use of a satellite or other will be transparent to the end user. Coordination of land segments and their interconnection with direct access stations (DAS) allow users to receive and process data from three satellites getting equivalent final products.
Benefit from this new constellation numerous activities associated with the need for data in time and intensity of crisis management in monitoring surface movements.
The development of this concept allows Hisdesat constellation providing customers best facilities and places the company at the forefront of satellite operators of Earth Observation.
Currently, Hisdesat and Airbus Defense and Space have defined operational requirements and benefits that the constellation must provide customers and are being adapted to operate both missions coordinated when PAZ in service.
Hisdesat also works in coordination with INTA, in the definition and development of interfaces for the PAZ Earth Station with direct access stations (DAS) defined by the constellation. Such stations, located at the customer installations, allow us to offer a very flexible service features Almost Real Time (Near Real Time).
