Sentences with phrase «synthetic aperture radar mission»

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The synthetic aperture radar developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory mounted on NASA's C - 20A research aircraft captured this image of Peru's Ubinas volcano on April 14, 2014, during its Latin American research mission.

For example, the agency is partnering with the Indian Space Research Organization to develop the NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission that will routinely provide systematic observations of Earth's land and ice - covered surfaces at least twice every 12 days, enabling greater scientific understanding of the dynamic processes that drive the Earth system and natural hazards, as well as providing actionable support for disaster response and recovery.

The second scenario, preferred by many participants, consists of a next - generation synthetic - aperture - radar - based scatterometer mission referred to in the Earth science decadal survey as XOVWM.