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The development of sea state monitoring from polarorbiting satellites has recently moved away from the concept of singIe, multi-sensor platform such as ERS-2, Topefloseidon or ENVISAT towards the design of a system that would allow frequent updates from a constellation of small satellites equipped with specialpurpose radar altimeters. This new system, called GANDER for Global Altimeter Network Designed to Evaluate Risk, has attracted significant support from a number of important customer segments including the military. This paper details the design of an altimeter for a Surrey small satelIite. and illustrates the major system trade-offs that need to be made. Critical to the viability of the mission will be the development of a radar altimeter capable of operating successfully on a small satellite bus, within a limited volume and power budget. The mission design presents a number of key technological challenges. in order to permit a physically small antenna to be employed, and IO minimise the pulse power. This can be achieved by advanced techniques, such as the delay Doppler altimeter concept, which emphasises the needs for high-speed onboard signal processing, phase linearity and

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Author

R.A. da Silva Curiel; G. Jolly; Y. Zheng

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0094-5765)

Published

1999

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)