BIOMASS end-to-end mission performance simulator

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4249-4252

  López Dekker, Paco ^a   De Zan, Francesco ^a   Börner, Thomas ^a   Younis, Marwan ^a   Papathanassiou, Kostas ^a   Guardabrazo, Tomás ^b   Bourlon, Valerie ^c   Ramongassie, Sophie ^c   Taveneau, Nicolas ^b   Ulander, Lars ^d   Murdin, Daniel ^d   Rogers, Neil ^e   Quegan, Shaun ^e   Franco, Raffaella ^f  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Deimos Space ^*

^c THALES ALENIA SPACE ITALIA   (Italy)

^d Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MISSION PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

GEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 80955141899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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