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MeteoSAR Meteorological Synthetic Aperture Radar
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X-band meteorological synthetic aperture radar on Meteor-M N2-4; WMO notes it operates separately because of spacecraft-orientation constraints.
MeteoSAR is an X-band synthetic aperture radar meteorological imager on the Meteor-M N2-4 Earth-observation payload set.[1][2] It operates at a 9.623 GHz centre frequency and supports multi-polarisation SAR imaging.[1] Its mode-dependent imaging geometry includes swath from 10 to 750 km and resolution entries of 1 m and 5 to 500 m depending on mode, so the useful capability is mode-specific rather than a single fixed ground sample distance.[1]
Its Earth-observation applications are all-weather imaging of ocean, land and ice, plus wave-direction and wave-period variables from SAR imagettes.[1] Meteor-M N2-4 is an operational meteorology mission with land-observation contribution, and MeteoSAR is the radar Earth-observation instrument in that mission context.[2] WMO records MeteoSAR as operating separately because of Meteor-M N2-4 spacecraft-orientation constraints.[2] SAR backscatter is demonstrated on Meteor-M N2-4 through MeteoSAR.[1]
Compositional position
- SAR backscatter imagingvia Meteor-M N2-4
MeteoSAR is an X-band synthetic aperture radar payload.
None on record.
- [1]WMO OSCAR instrument record: MeteoSARagency doc2026-06-16
- [2]WMO OSCAR satellite record: Meteor-M N2-4agency doc2026-06-16