Table 1 List of SAR missions
From: L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar: Current and future applications to Earth sciences
Satellite | Band | Agency | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
Seasat | L | US DoD | 1978 |
ERS-1 | C | ESA | 1992–1996 |
JERS-1 | L | JAXA | 1992–1998 |
RADARSAT-1 | C | CSA | 1995–2013 |
ERS-2 | C | ESA | 1996–2011 |
SRTM | C, X | NASA | 2000 |
ENVISAT | C | ESA | 2002–2011 |
ALOS | L | JAXA | 2006–2011 |
RADARSAT-2 | C | CSA | 2007–present |
TerraSAR-X | X | DLR | 2007–present |
COSMO-SkyMed | X | ASI | 2007–present |
TanDEM-X | X | DLR | 2010–present |
ALOS-2 | L | JAXA | 2014–present |
Sentinel-1 | C | ESA | 2014–present |
SAOCOM | L | CONAE/ASI | 2017–present |
NISAR | L | NASA/ISRO | 2021 (planned) |
ALOS-4 | L | JAXA | 2022 (planned) |
Tandem-L | L | DLR | (planned) |