TerraSAR and German Contributions to the GMES Programme

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1 TerraSAR and German Contributions to the GMES Programme Gunter Schreier Business Development and GMES Coordination DLR German Remote Sensing Data Center

2 The German Aerospace Center (DLR) Largest R&D institution in Germany 30 Institutes at 8 sites and 7 field offices Offices in Washington, Paris, Brussels Space Agency of the Federal Republic of Germany 5700 staff, 2500 scientists, 500 PhD students 1300 staff in Oberpfaffenhofen Hamburg Bremen Berlin- Neustrelitz Trauen Charlottenburg Braunschweig Göttingen Köln-Porz Bonn Sankt Augustin Darmstadt Lampoldshausen Stuttgart Berlin-- Adlershof Weilheim Oberpfaffenhofen Aeronautics Space R&D Space Agency Transport Energy Folie 2

3 DLR s Earth Observation System Approach data scientists sensor technologies & mission concepts ground segments Mission control information extraction & operational processors research applications & services agencies industry politics public Folie 3

4 German Spaceflight Program: SAR Road Map SIR-C/X-SAR SRTM TerraSAR-X TanDEM-X International, experimental, scientific mission International, experimental, scientific mission with operational product (DEM) National, operational mission suiting scientific and commercial markets PPP Contract National, operational scientific and commercial mission Geoscience Geoscience Geoscience Geo/Radarscience Common public interest Commercial applications Commercial applications Common public interest Common public interest Folie 4

5 TerraSAR-X Satellite Wet mass: 1209 kg Orbit average power: 800 W Size: 5 m height 2.4 m diameter Thrusters Solar Generator Laser Communication Terminal (LCT) 5,5 Gbit/sec data transfer X-Band Radar Antenna 384 Transmit/Receive Modules S-Band TM/TC Antenna X-Band Downlink Antenna Data Rate: 300 MBit/sec 256 Gbit Solid State Mass Memory Folie 5

6 TerraSAR-X, a Public Private Partnership Public Private Partnership DLR Project Management G/S Development & Ops Science Coordination System Engineering Support EADS Astrium Platform Development Instrument Development Launch on Dnepr-1 Infoterra Service Infrastructure Information Products Commercial Exploitation Main Mission Goals: Provision of TerraSAR-X data and products for scientific applications Commercial exploitation of remote sensing data by DLR by InfoTerra Folie 6

7 TerraSAR-X Mission Profile S-Band Telemetry & Telecommand Downlink of stored radar 300 Mbit/sec Radar Data Take Ground Segment Commercial Exploitation DLR Ground Station Weilheim DLR Ground Station Neustrelitz DLR-Oberpfaffenhofen: Mission Operations/Planning, Flight Dynamics Radar Operations, Calibration DLR-Oberpfaffenhofen DLR-Neustrelitz: Data Reception, SAR-Processing, Archiving, Data Distribution Science Coordination Folie 7

8 Global Station Network of DLR for national missions Light circles: Existing and planned stations Blue circles: former station locations Permanent Neustrelitz (Germany) 3 LSX-band 7.3 m, LS-band 4.0 m, VHF Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany) X-band 3.6 m, L-band 2.4 m, L-band 4.0 m X-band (5,6 m) on behalf of European Space Imaging O Higgins (Antarctic) LSX-band 9.0 m Chetumal (Mexico) LSX-band 9.0 m Inuvik (Canada) plans for 2009 operations LSX-band 9.0 m Transportable Ny Álesund (with GFZ, Spitzbergen) X-band 4.0 m Mobile Recife (Brazil) L-band 0.9 m Folie 8

9 Dnepr-1 Launch in Baikonur, Kasachstan June 15th, :14 MESZ (2:14 UTC) Folie 9

10 First TerraSAR-X Image! N Russia, West of Wolgograd, 19 th June m Resolution, Stripmap, HH-Pol., Folie 10 Orbit Institut 69, für Methodik ascending der Fernerkundung bzw. Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum

11 Spotlight Image: Gizeh Pyramids November 22,2007 Folie 11

12 Spotlight Image: Teotihuacán January 20, 2008 Folie 12

13 TSX-ScanSAR: Suez-Canal December 31, 2007 Folie 13

14 TSX-Spotlight: Suez-Canal February 11, 2008 Folie 14

15 Multi Temporal Image Frankfurt Airport Folie 15

16 TerraSAR-X Along Track Interferometry Automatically Detected Vehicles 0 km/h 130 Ground range approx. 14 km by Remote Sensing Technology Institute Total number of detections: 38 Detected vehicles driving away from Radar (West): 23 Detected vehicles driving towards Radar (East): 15 Folie 16

17 TerraSAR-X Interferogram of Paris (HS 300 MHz ) azimuth range Folie 17

18 Tour Eiffel and Pont Mirabeau azimuth Topographic height and millimeter LOS displacements (~7 mm) measurable range m 0 12 mm LOS displacement (270 ) by Remote Sensing Technology Institute Folie 18

19 Las Vegas Building Deformation 628 m or 1.55 cm LOS displacement 1.55 cm LOS displacement ϕ + 2 ϕ 3 Folie 19

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21 Las Vegas 11 days 06 JUL JUL JUL AUG AUG OCT OCT OCT LOS [mm] +8 Folie 21

22 Las Vegas 06 JUL days 17 JUL JUL AUG AUG OCT OCT OCT LOS [mm] +8 Folie 22

23 Las Vegas 06 JUL JUL days 28 JUL AUG AUG OCT OCT OCT LOS [mm] +8 Folie 23

24 Las Vegas 06 JUL JUL JUL days 08 AUG AUG OCT OCT OCT LOS [mm] +8 Folie 24

25 Las Vegas 06 JUL JUL JUL AUG days 19 AUG OCT OCT OCT LOS [mm] +8 Folie 25

26 Las Vegas 06 JUL JUL JUL AUG AUG days 02 OCT OCT OCT LOS [mm] +8 Folie 26

27 Las Vegas 06 JUL JUL JUL AUG AUG days 02 OCT OCT OCT LOS [mm] +8 Folie 27

28 First TerraSAR-X Spotlight Interferogram Times: 26/6-7/7/2007 Mode: Spotlight Size: ~ 8 km x 10 km Baseline: 309 m Bandwidth: 150 MHz Incidence angle: 59 (out of full performance!) Image resolution: 2 m azimuth, 1 m range Location: 36 N, 116 W (near Las Vegas) Folie 28

29 Spotlight Interferogram (Intensity) 59 out of full performance range, low signal & many shadows Folie 29

30 First Spotlight DEM: Google Earth Overlay 5 m DEM grid ~ 5 m vert. accuracy Folie 30

31 TanDEM-X TanDEM-X is a national SAR interferometry mission employing - the TanDEM-X satellite as a rebuild of TerraSAR-X - TerraSAR-X to form the tandem constellation (200 m separation) TanDEM-X main mission objective is to generate a high precision, global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Launch end of 2009 TanDEM-X Public Private Partnership (PPP) Folie 31

32 Digital Elevation Models from TanDEM-X Spatial Resolution Absolute Vertical Accuracy (90%) Relative Vertical Accuracy (point-to-point in1 cell, 90%) DTED-1 90 m x 90 m <30m <20m DTED-2 30 m x 30 m <18m <12m HRTI m x 12 m <10m <2m HRTI -4 6mx6 m < 5m < 0.8m SRTM / X-SAR TanDEM-X Simulation ~ DTED 2 ~ HRTI 3-4 Folie 32

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34 GMES: Global Monitoring of Environment and Security The next EU flagship for Space after Galileo Driven by user needs An EU-led initiative, in which the Commission will manage actions for identifying and developing services relying both on in-situ and remote sensing data and ESA will implement the space component. National missions are part of the space component. GMES is European contribution to GEO/GEOSS Implementation thru: ESA GMES space component supplemented by national missions User driven Core and Downstream Services FP7 followed by dedicated EC budget for operations Folie 34

35 GMES: Global Monitoring of Environment and Security Space Systems Observational Networks Data Centers Three Core Services Land Marine Emergency Resp. Atmosphere Security Plus Two Pilot Services Downstream Services, t.b.d. Folie 35

36 The european Fleet of GMES Satellites Science Operational European Commission National ERS-1/2 Dual Use Private ENVISAT Earth Watch SPOT Series CryoSAT SMOS SWARM Earth ExplorerCryoSAT II GOCE ADM-Aelous Terra-SAR-X Cosmo Skymed GMES Sentinels SAR (S1a, S1b) Superspectral/Infrared (S2a, S2b) Ocean & Land observ. (S3a, S3b) Atmosphere LEO (S4) Atmosphere GEO (S5) Rapid Eye EarthCARE TanDEM AstroTerra Pleiades Terra-SAR-X-2 (private) EnMAP SEOSAR (PAZ) Ingenio Rapid Eye (Next) Folie 36

37 German Contributions to GMES Space Segment Sentinel 1: SAR Imaging: SRTM TerraSAR-X TanDEM-X (2009) Sentinel 2: Superspectral Imaging: BIRD RapidEye IRS-P6; ResourceSAT EnMAP (2012) Sentinel 2b: Very High resolution optical mapping: IKONOS, GeoEye-1 CartoSAT-1, CartoSAT-2 Sentinel 3: Ocean Monitoring: EnMAP (2012) DLR partner/ commercial distributors Sentinel 4 & 5 atmospheric monitoring: GOME Sciamachy Earth System understanding: Grace, Champ Folie 37

38 Mission Principle Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program Launch: 2012 Spatial Res.: 30m at 30km swath Repetition: 5 days at +/- 30 off-nadir DLR Satellite, Principle investigator: GFZ Satellite & instrument prime: Kayser-Threde Hyperspectral instrument, >200 channels ( nm) Platform for further operationalization of methods for information retrieval for land surface monitoring Folie 38

39 Signature Phase C/D :11 a.m. Folie 39

40 Washington D.C. TerraSAR-X Spotlight Mode Thank you for yout attention Folie 40

41 Thank you for your attention Gunter Schreier Head Business Development DLR German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) Oberpfaffenhofen D Wessling Germany Folie 41