Introduction
TerraSAR-X images are acquired by two high resolution radar satellites (TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X) every 11 days anywhere on the globe.
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Product information
Geographic coverage
The geographic coverage is global.
General specifications
Specifications | Description |
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Sensor type | Radar |
Acquisition mode | Staring SpotLight High Resolution SpotLight High Resolution SpotLight 300 MHz SpotLight StripMap ScanSAR Wide ScanSAR |
Processing level | Single Look Slant Range Complex (SSC) Multi Look Ground Range Detected (MGD) Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected (GEC) Ascending/Descending Merge (ADM) |
File format | COSAR GeoTIFF |
Revisit frequency | 2 to 11 days |
Catalog data availability | From 2007 |
Incidence angle | 15° to 60° |
Spectral bands | X-band (9.65 GHz) |
Polarization | Single Dual |
Orbit directions | Ascending Descending |
Bit depth per pixel | 16-bit |
Coordinate reference system | EPSG:4326 (WGS84) |
Acquisition parameters
Acquisition mode | Slant range resolution (m) | Azimuth resolution (m) | Polarization |
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Staring SpotLight | 0.6 | 0.24 | Single (VV or HH) |
High Resolution SpotLight | 1.2 | 1.1 | Single (VV or HH) |
1.2 | 2.2 | Dual (HH & VV) | |
High Resolution SpotLight 300 MHz | 1.2 | 1.1 | Single (VV or HH) |
1.2 | 2.2 | Dual (HH & VV) | |
SpotLight | 1.2 | 1.7 | Single (VV or HH) |
1.2 | 3.4 | Dual (HH & VV) | |
StripMap | 1.2 | 3.3 | Single (VV or HH) |
1.2 | 6.6 | Dual (HH & VV, HH & HV, or VV & VH) | |
ScanSAR | 1.2 | 18.5 | Single (VV or HH) |
Wide ScanSAR | 1.7–3.3 | 40 | Single (VV, HH, HV or VH) |
Product formats
Processing level | File format |
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Single Look Slant Range Complex (SSC) | COSAR |
Multi Look Ground Range Detected (MGD) | GeoTIFF |
Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected (GEC) | GeoTIFF |
Enhanced Ellipsoid Corrected (EEC) | GeoTIFF |
UP42 data products
Data product | ID | Name |
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Custom | a6f64332-3148-4e05-a475-45a02176f210 | terra-sar-tasking |