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SAR Missions and PolInSAR Initiatives Location: Red Hall Session Chair: Irena Hajnsek, DLR/ETH Zürich Session Chair: Francesco Sarti, European Space Agency (ESA) | |
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11:30am - 11:50am
The NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission: Overview and Status NASA JPL, United States of America The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Mission launched successfully on July 30, 2025, and will begin distributing science data at the end of its commissioning phase, ramping up to full science operations – collecting all land and ice-covered surfaces every 12 days from ascending and descending orbit vantage points. These data will be freely and openly distributed from the NASA Alaska Satellite Facility within days of acquisition. NISAR observations are capable of addressing fundamental and applied research topics spanning disciplines that include ecosystems science, cryosphere science, geodesy, solid earth science, hydrology, disaster response, and resource management. This talk will provide an overview of the mission, including its science and technology innovation, and dive into its status with focus on data and uniqueness of this first-of-its-kind L and S band mission. Particular emphasis will be placed on NISAR’s contributions to the polarimetric and polarimetric-interferometric SAR community, with examples from early science demonstrations that showcase initial research applications. | |
