ROSE-L EO System - Mission and Instrument Performance Assessment

Abstract

The Radar Observing System for Europe (ROSE-L) is an L-band SAR mission that is dedicated to day-and-night monitoring of land, ice and oceans, and responding to Emergency Management services. Moreover, ROSE-L intends to ensure compatibility and lifetime overlap with respect to the currently (and near future) operating Sentinel-1. Apart from being a radar EO system for surveillance and risk management, ROSE-L is basically intended as one of the technological roads the European Community and ESA want to achieve and systematically exploit continuous monitoring of the different Earth environments for many different kinds of institutional services as well as for novel scientific applications and studies. On this regard, the systematic acquisitions of Satellite data is guaranteed by way of an end to end system design providing no gaps in data acquisition, downlink and storage. The paper outline the ROSE-L end-to-end system architecture, with a particular focus on its space segment and relative performance as they have been defined during the Phase A/B1 Study in the frame of the Copernicus Expansion Programme