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  3. After logging in, complete and submit the form with your proposed use of the data
  4. The proposal will be evaluated by ESA, which normally takes between 4 and 6 weeks
  5. Upon successful evaluation, you will receive a confirmation email, which describes the amount of data to be provided, and details of how to order the data.
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The collection is available to users located in ESA Member States (including Canada), in the European Commission Member States and in Africa upon submission of the Project Proposal that is subject to evaluation and acceptance by ESA and the data owner.

All Cosmo-Skymed products are freely accessible in accordance with ESA’s Earth observation data policy. An active EO Sign In account is required to download the products.

In ESA's Third Party Missions (TPM) dissemination service and catalogue the data is collection based and allows data browse and download through the treeview as well as via geographical search using an interactive map.

Cosmo-Skymed products can also be discovered through ESA's EO Catalogue (EO CAT), which allows users to browse and download products among the available datasets from ESA and Third Party Missions and instruments, using various criteria (spatial, temporal).

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Description

The COSMO-SkyMed archive collection consists of COSMO-SkyMed products requested by ESA supported projects over their areas of interest around the world. The dataset regularly grows as ESA collects new products over the years.

The following list delineates the characteristics of the SAR measurement modes that are disseminated under ESA Third Party Missions (TPM).

  • STRIPMAP HIMAGE (HIM): Achieving medium resolution (3 m x 3 m single look), wide swath imaging (swath extension ≥40 km).
  • STRIPMAP PINGPONG (SPP): Achieving medium resolution (15 m), medium swath imaging (swath ≥30 km) with two radar polarization's selectable among HH, HV, VH and VV.
  • SCANSAR WIDE (SCW): Achieving radar imaging with swath extension of 100 x 100 km2 and a spatial resolution of 30 x 30 m2.
  • SCANSAR HUGE (SCH): Achieving radar imaging with swath extension of 200 x 200 km2 and a spatial resolution selectable of 100 x 100 m2.

Processing Levels:

  • Level 1A - Single-look Complex Slant - (SCSB and SCSU): RAW data focused in slant range-azimuth projection, that is the sensor natural acquisition projection; product contains In-Phase and Quadrature of the focused data, weighted and radiometrically equalised.The processing of the 1A_SCSU product differs from that of the 1A_SCSB product for the following features:a non-weighted processing is performed, which means that windowing isn't applied on the processed bandwidth; radiometric equalisation (in terms of compensation of the range antenna pattern and incidence angle) is not performed; hence only compensation of the antenna transmitter gain and receiver attenuation and range spreading loss is applied.
  • Level 1B - Detected Ground Multi-look (DGM): Product obtained detecting, multi-looking and projecting the Single-look Complex Slant data onto a grid regular in ground. Spotlight Mode products are not multi-looked.
  • Level 1C - Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected (GEC) and Level 1D - Geocoded Terrain Corrected (GTC): Obtained projecting the Level 1A product onto a regular grid in a chosen cartographic reference system. In case of Lev 1C the surface is the earth ellipsoid while for the Lev 1D a DEM (Digital Elevation Model) is used to approximate the real earth surface.

Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service.

As per ESA policy, very high-resolution data over conflict areas cannot be provided. 

Details

DATA SET SPECIFICATIONS

Spatial coverage:
90.0 N, -90.0 S, -180.0 W, 180.0 E
Temporal coverage:
2008-09-15 - present
Date of launch:
2007-06-08
Operators:
ASI
Mission status:
onGoing
Orbit height:
619.6 km
Orbit type:
Sun-synchronous
Swath width:
200 km for ScanSAR Huge, 100 km for ScanSAR Wide, 40 km StripMap HIMAGE, 30 km StripMap PING PONG
Resolution:
Very High Resolution - VHR (0 - 5m), High Resolution - HR (5 - 20 m), Medium Resolution - MR (20 - 500 m)
Wavelengths:
X-Band (2.8 - 5.2 cm)
Product types:
SAR_SCH_AU, SAR_SCH_AB, SAR_SCH_1B, SAR_SCH_1C, SAR_SCH_1D, SAR_SCW_AU, SAR_SCW_AB, SAR_SCW_1B, SAR_SCW_1C, SAR_SCW_1D, SAR_HIM_AU, SAR_HIM_AB, SAR_HIM_1B, SAR_HIM_1C, SAR_HIM_1D, SAR_SPP_AU, SAR_SPP_AB, SAR_SPP_1B, SAR_SPP_1C, SAR_SPP_1D

PROCESSING LEVEL

level 1a, level 1b, level 1c, level 1d, multiple

APPLICABLE TERMS & CONDITIONS

Utilisation of this data is subject to ESA's Earth Observation Terms and Conditions
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