Leads: Martin Suess (ESA), Paul Rosen (NASA/JPL), Malcolm Davidson (ESA), Manfred Zink (DLR)
SG2 activities include:
Action SG2-1: SAR-VC will ensure review of all planned SAR missions to identify potential future data gaps. Information exchange will be enabled to allow future mission plans to be shared well in advance of launch to identify possible overlaps and synergies.
To assess the benefits of multi-mission constellations and take advantage of international cooperation, SAR-VC will enable the use of tools for constellation science, applications performance studies, and coverage studies. Capabilities may include a broader range of geophysical parameters to be optimized and their associated error models to address an array of measurement needs common across agencies.
Recommendations of science and applications needs identified by SG3 feed the requirements for future missions. SG2 will analyze those needs and through planning simulations and performance evaluations will develop a CEOS-level strategy for future mission coordination, factoring in the recommendations on techniques and technologies from SG4 and commercial capabilities from SG5.
Action SG2-2: Insights and recommendations originating from SG4 will be leveraged to identify opportunities for integration of SAR Techniques and Technologies into planned or prospective future missions, especially in the area of companion satellites and multi-static missions, which are currently under consideration by many agencies.
Action SG2-3: Mission plans can be quite complex for an individual mission, with multiple stakeholders placing demands on observations. In coordinating many missions across agencies, the problem becomes even more complex. Therefore, SAR-VC will coordinate cross-validation of mission planning simulation tools that can support multiple satellites for coordination of future multi-agency mission constellations.