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SAOCOM PROJECT a joint Argentine-Italian SAR-L Mission

The SAOCOM mission aims to meet user needs in Argentina and Italy, focusing on various sectors such as agriculture, weather, emergencies, and more. It involves a joint mission with the Italian COSMO-Skymed Constellation, offering soil moisture products and operational integration.

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SAOCOM PROJECT a joint Argentine-Italian SAR-L Mission

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  1. COMISION NACIONAL DE ACTIVIDADES ESPACIALES SAOCOMPROJECT a joint Argentine-Italian SAR-L Mission Mission overview and Outline of the Global Background Mission Laura Frulla, CONAE Presented by: Ake Rosenqvist, soloEO CEOS SDCG-4 Pasadena, CA/USA – 4-6 Sep 2013

  2. SAOCOM Mission Objectives To satisfy user needs in Argentina and Italy To satisfy Space Information Cycles-of the Argentine National SpaceProgram: agriculture, fishing and forestry, weather and climate, hydrology and oceanography, emergencies, environment and natural resources of land and sea, urban areas, cartography, geology, mining and territorial planning, health To operationally integrate the SIASGE System composed by Argentine-Italian SAOCOM Constellation and the Italian COSMO-Skymed Constellation in order to implement a double band (X+L) SAR joint Mission between ASI and CONAE

  3. Main Mission Drivers To develop soil moisture products for specific Argentinian areas in order to give support to agricultural and hydrological applications To allow applications of Italian interest over Europe

  4. a constellation of two identical satellites, SAOCOM 1A and SAOCOM 1B, carrying each one a polarimetric L-band SAR instrument (1,275 GHz) Sun synchronous, nearly circular frozenpolar orbit (06:12 am LTAN/619.6 km) repeat cycle of 16 days for each satellite (8 days for the constellation) Missionlifetime: 5 years Launch: SAOCOM 1A: 2015 SAOCOM 1B: 2016 Mission Overview

  5. Mission Acquisition Strategy • Baseline mission • Foreground mission • Background mission

  6. SAOCOM – Baseline mission Fixed acquisitions: • For soil moisture • over the Pampas (main Argentinian region dedicated to agriculture and cattle – 83 Mha) • Sensor calibration • Specific point targets in Argentina and Italy (Europe) • Homogeneous rain forest areas in the Amazon and Congo basins

  7. SAOCOM – Foreground mission Variable acquisitions (world-wide) • User requests through CONAE’s Spatial Information Cycles programme (from Argentina and abroad) • ASI interest area, including exclusivity area ASI exclusivity area ASI area of interest

  8. SAOCOM – Background mission(referred to the Argentine interest) To foresee acquisitions of certain valuable data to generate a data base useful for future uses according to available resources Fixed acquisitions Argentinian institutional users National acquisition plan under development. Predetermined acquisition plans for (20) dedicated application areas defined by Argentinian institutions and user groups Natural resources mapping, Emergency mitigation, volcanoes, maritime surveillance, etc.

  9. SAOCOM –Background Mission (world wide) Global Background Mission (GBM) • GBM currently under development for SAOCOM-1A and SAOCOM-1B • CONAE thematic objective: Forest biomass • Building consistent archives over global forests • First focus: Forests in the pan-tropical zone • Second focus: Siberian forests • Third: Others (TBD)

  10. SAOCOM – Background Mission (world wide) Global Background Mission • Annual dual season pan-tropical observations

  11. SAOCOM – Background Mission (world wide) Global Background Mission • Annual dual season pan-tropical observations

  12. SAOCOM – Background Mission (world wide) Global Background Mission • Second priority: Siberian boreal zone

  13. SAOCOM – Background Mission (world wide) Global Background Mission • Compliant with CEOS/SDCG recommendations • Repetitive annual observations over the pan-tropical zone • Dual season (wet and dry) • Fine spatial resolution (10m) • Dual polarisation (HH+HV) • Max acquisition time for GBM 5 min/orbit to minimise impact on high priority observations • Acquisition planning for SAOCOM-1B has started (Sept 2013)

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