RADARSAT-1

- C band Synthetic aperture Radar (SAR)

- Orbit launch date: 04 November 1995

- 5 years design life

- 7 different beam modes

- Resolution is between 8 - 100 km

- Frequently Acqusition ve Emergency discovery

- Programming on emergency and priority conditions

- Real-time data analysis

-Data Calibration on the studies of Change Detection

RADARSAT has a SAR instrument with following properties:

- C band wavelength (5.6cm)

- HH polarization

- Right-sided steerable antenna

- 7 differen beam modes and 35 beam positions

- Wide range ScanSar capacity

- More than one imaging types

RADARSAT can collect data over 1175km2 width by using 7 different beam modes. This gives users flexibility for the desired acqusitions.

For more information:http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/

Beam Modes:

		Signal Data	Single Look Complex	Path Image	Path Image Plus	Map Image	Precision Map Image	Ortho-Image
	Fine
	Standard
	Wide
	ScanSAR Narrow
	SpanSAR Wide
	Extended High
	Extended Low