EOS SAR: A new approach

Abstract

Viewgraphs on Earth Observing System (EOS) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) are presented. The goal of the EOS is to develop the modeling and observational capabilities to predict and/or monitor atmospheric, terrestrial, and oceanic processes that are either causing global change or resulting from global change. The EOS SAR goal is to provide important geophysical products to the EOS data set to improve our understanding of the state and functioning of the Earth system. The EOS SAR strategy is to define the instrument requirements based on required input to geophysical algorithms, to provide the processing capability and algorithms to generate such products on the required spatial (global) and temporal (3-5 days) scales, and to provide the spaceborne instrumentation with international partnerships.