{"id":219296,"date":"2014-02-25T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"9693dde22542190c7cc270342a71e065"},"modified":"2014-02-25T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:51:00","slug":"sentinel-1-radar-modes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219296","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-1 radar modes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/02\/sentinel-1_radar_modes\/14294105-1-eng-GB\/Sentinel-1_radar_modes_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe C-band synthetic aperture radar on Sentinel-1 operates in four acquisition modes, the primary two being Interferometric Wide swath and Wave. Interferometric Wide swath mode has a swath width of 250 km and a ground resolution of 5m by 20 m. Wave mode acquisitions \u2013 which can help determine the direction, wavelength and heights of waves on the open oceans \u2013 are 20 km by 20 km, acquired alternately on two different incidence angles every 100 km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/02\/sentinel-1_radar_modes\/14294105-1-eng-GB\/Sentinel-1_radar_modes_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe C-band synthetic aperture radar on Sentinel-1 operates in four acquisition modes, the primary two being Interferometric Wide swath and Wave. Interferometric Wide swath mode has a swath width of 250 km and a ground resolution of 5m by 20 m. Wave mode acquisitions \u2013 which can help determine the direction, wavelength and heights of waves on the open oceans \u2013 are 20 km by 20 km, acquired alternately on two different incidence angles every 100 km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}