This paper provides an overview of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission SRTM), with emphasis on flight system implementation and mission operations from systems engineering perspective. Successfully flown in February, 2000, the SRTM's primary payload consists of several subsystems to form the first spaceborne dual-frequency (C- band and X-band) fixed baseline interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR0 system, with the mission objective to acquire data sets over 80% of Earth's landmass for height reconstruction. The paper provides system architecture, unique design features, engineering budgets, design verification, in-flight checkout and data acquisition of the SRTM payload, in particular for the C-band system. Mission operation and post-mission data processing activities are also presented. The complexity of the SRTM as a system, the ambitious mission objective, the demanding requirements and the high inter-dependency between multi-disciplined subsystems posed many challenges. The engineering experience and the insight thus gained have important implications for future spaceborne interferometric SAR mission design and implementation.


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    Title :

    Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) flight system design and operations overview


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Microwave Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Environment II ; 2000 ; Sendai,Japan


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2000-12-21





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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