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Concept Development for Advanced Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar

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Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can globally monitor dynamic processes on the Earth’s Surface. The last SAR to be developed and deployed by NASA was in the year 2000. This system’s high costs inhibited development of new and improved designs. NASA has developed a new, state of the art, SAR system that is capable of providing capabilities beyond established systems and at a fraction of the cost.