29.12.2012 Views

4 Final Report - Emits - ESA

4 Final Report - Emits - ESA

4 Final Report - Emits - ESA

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

3 <strong>Final</strong><br />

<strong>Report</strong><br />

cloud scenes where the cloud coverage, although the spots might feature high cloud amount. The only<br />

restrictions for observations on Geo-Oculus, are areas clouded the whole day with no cloud<br />

movement.<br />

Conclusion<br />

Geo-Oculus has been found to provide the best possible ground coverage at high resolution with a<br />

significant improvement compared to LEO-missions. The achievable ground coverage with Geo-<br />

Oculus at ~40 m GSD over Europe is ~2.5 times more than Sentinel 3 at 300 m GSD. This advantage<br />

results from the swath width, the orbit geometry of LEO-missions which results in three swaths per day<br />

over Europe at fixed local times and on the other side the capability of Geo-Oculus to access whole<br />

Europe and to pick the cloud free points in time. The unique feature of multiple acquisitions and near<br />

real time mission plan updating is bund to geo-synchronous missions and can not be provided by<br />

LEO-missions.<br />

Page 3-26 Doc. No: GOC-ASG-RP-002<br />

Issue: 2<br />

Astrium GmbH Date: 13.05.2009

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!