Concept Development for Advanced Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar

Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can globally monitor dynamic processes on the Earth’s Surface. The last SAR to be developed and deployed by NASA was in the year 2000. This system’s high costs inhibited development of new and improved designs. NASA has now developed a new, state-of-the-art SAR system that can provide capabilities beyond established systems and at a fraction of the cost.