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2.10.2 Throughput

2.10.2.1 Product parameters

The parameters shown below are assumed to be constant for all products.

Table 2.73 Parameters common to all products
Description Value
beam velocity 6800 m/s
sampling frequency 19.208 MHz
transmitted pulse duration 15.0 s
antenna length 10.0 m

The number and type of measurements made per orbit depends on the nature of the user requests for ASAR acquisitions. ASAR can be operated for up to 30 min per orbit for high-rate modes and for the full orbit for low-rate modes.


Keywords: ESA European Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne, observation de la terre, earth observation, satellite remote sensing, teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar, chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar, atmospheric chemistry