EMSA satellites scenario

File name EMSA.xml
# Date Notes
62 06/09/2024 Added Sentinel-2C after its recent launch 2024-157
61 02/09/2024 COSMO-SkyMed-SG satellites have been updated to give higher priority to Right looking modes.
60 31/05/2024

ICEYE sensor beam geometries have been further updated.

Removed satellites ICEYE X12, X15 and X18.

Added satellites ICEYE X31 and X35

59 04/04/2024 The orbit of SPOT-6 and GAOFEN 02 has been updated because not sun-synchronous any more
58 18/12/2023 Added ICEYE X15, X20, X23 ed X25
57 07/11/2023

Added ICEYE-X18 and ICEYE-X19

Small changes in ICEYE TopSAR instrument geometry

56 29/09/2023 Changed COSMO Skymed and COSMO-Skymed-SG attitude mode from ZERO DOPPLER to LOCAL NORMAL
55 05/09/2023 Reinstated COSMO-Skymed-SG which had been inadvertently removed.
54 10/03/2023 Further correction to ICEYE satellites, removing the orbit numbering settings which do not provide a better reference than the orbit numbering provided in the TLEs
53 01/03/2023

Further correction to ICEYE naming conventions, sensor geometries and constrain settings, following input from ICEYE.

Removal of ICEYE-X4, 5, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 27 as requested by ICEYE

52 01/03/2023

Correction to ICEYE naming conventions and sensor geometries following input form ICEYE.

Removal of ICEYE Spotlight mode. Only" Spotlight_extended_area" mode is used in EMSA operation

51 23/05/2022 COSMO Skymed-3 has been de orbited and removed from the scenario
50 19/05/2022

Updated ICEYE TopSAR mode fixing the GSD to 15 meters

COSMO Skymed-3 orbit has been modified to account for its departure of the nominal SSO.

Added GAOFEN-3-03 after its recent launch 2022-035

49 10/03/2022 Modified ICEYE configurations to have Yaw Steering mode active and new Sensor mode SLEA (Spot Extended Area)
48 17/12/2021 Sentinel-1 satellites have been set to not display framing
47 24/11/2021 Added GAOFEN-3-02 after its recent launch
46 15/10/2021 ICEYE satellite sensors have been updated to include TopSAR modes (ScanSAR)
45 21/07/2021 Added new ICEYE-11, 12, 13 and 15 satellites after their recent launch
44 29/06/2021 Removed RISAT-1 due to end of mission in 2016
43 31/05/2021 Sentinel-1A and 1B sensors IWS and EWS have been updated with the operational framing definition of 25 seconds (IWS) and 60 seconds (EWS)
42 28/05/2021 DigitalGlobe satellites (GeoEye-1, WV-1, Wv-2 and WV-3) have been updated to account for their Max Viewing Angle / Accessible Ground Swath of +-45 degrees
41 25/05/2021 Updated Spotlight-2A mode in COSMO-Skymed and COSMO-Skymed-SG to have 0.3 m spatial resolution
40 18/05/2021 Sentinel-1 IWS and EWS modes have been modified to declare a GSD Spatial Resolution of 87 meters, according to the performance of the S1 L1 GRD MR product operationally used by EMSA.
39 20/04/2021 Updated of COSMO-Skymed and COSMO-Skymed-SG to implement the correct polarizations options for each sensor mode
38 02/04/2021 Small update to GAOFEN-3 to account for right looking modes only
37 01/04/2021 Added GAOFEN-3
36 01/04/2021 Updated RADARSAT-2 beam configuration following latest updates of MDA's APT BeamDefinitions.cfg file, with upgrades only on the Wide Ulrafine mode
35 26/03/2021

RADARSAT-2 spotlight mode resolution changed to 3m

Deimos-2 sensor resolution changed to 0.75 m

Removed SPOT-5 and Formosat-2 because decommissioned

34 05/03/2021 Ping Pong sensors on Cosmo Skymed satellites  have been brought back to a frame size of 30 km.
33 04/03/2021 Cosmo Skymed Ping Pong sensors have been upgraded to provide a frame size of 40 km
32 01/02/2021 Added Spotlight-2A mode to COSMO-SkyMed
31 14/01/2021

TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X and PAZ sensor definitions have been updated to implement the following frame sizes SC= 22 sec, WS= 29 sec, SM= 8 sec

TanDEM-X has been set to disengaged, because flying in formation at a close distance from TerraSAR-X it would produce practically the same swaths and footprints, cluttering the views

30 22/12/2020 COSMO-Skymed-SG configuration has been updated to rename the different beams
29 22/12/2020 COSMO-Skymed-SG configuration has been updated to remove the Eclipse constraint on its sensors
28 19/12/2019 Further change so that all ICEYE satellites are named with an hyphen (ICEYE-X2, etc) and have VV polarization
27 17/12/2019

Updated Sentinel-2 sensor configuration to include calibration and observation modes

ICEYE X2, X4 and X5 configurations have been reviewed further to fix Spotlight mode and include slewing information

26 16/12/2019

Geoeye-1 sensor Field of Regard extended to look angle [-45 deg, 45 deg]

25 07/12/2019 Added CSG (Cosmo Second Generation) satellites
24 16/08/2019

PAZ satellite absolute orbit numbers aligned with operational set-up

New 3D Model for SUPERVIEW / GAOJING satellites

23 08/07/2019 Added SUPERVIEW satellites with Imager MS and Imager PAN instruments
22 30/04/2018 Added Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B
21 24/11/2018 RADARSAT-2 configuration has been fixed to implement correct frame sizes and min frame size constraint
20 20/11/2018 RADARSAT-2 configuration has been fixed to implement the polarization settings of MDA's APT
19 17/10/2018 Updated RADARSAT-2 beam configuration following latest updates of MDA's APT BeamDefinitions.cfg file
18 04/04/0218 PAZ orbit has been reconfigured with the sun-synchronous nominal 11 day repeat cycle
17 26/02/2018 Added PAZ after its recent launch
16 04/01/2018 Updated RADARSAT-2 beam configurations according to the latest APT BeamDefinitions.cfg file. In practice, mode Wide Ultrafine beams U2W2 and U18W2 have been slightly modified.
15 12/12/2017 Fixed TerraSAR-X WS sensor. The wide_001 beam was incorrect and has been corrected. TanDEM-X and PAZ have been equally updated
14 04/12/2017 Changed Sentinel-1B orbit numbers to account for correct cycle numbering
13 15/08/2017 Fixed FORMOSAT-2 and RISAT-2 orbits without sun synchronicity due to apparent change in orbit maintenance.
12 30/05/2017 Updated Radarsat-2 configuration to include MSSR mode (Maritime Surveillance)
11 17/05/2017 Updated TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X and PAZ sensors aligned with new baseline "EMSA_License_TSX_Sensor_Parameters_I1.1_incl_HS300_and_SMRaD.xlsx" provided by EMSA
10 10/04/2017

Cosmo-Skymed satellites attitude has been updated to implement minimum time between consecutive acquisitions with different slew side, right or left. The transition time from one slew side to another has been set to 6 minutes.

Corrected naming of HS300. Before it was "HS 300" instead of "HS300"

Added SMRaD mode (dual polarization SM)

9 08/02/2017

Fixes in TerraSAR-X configuration removing wrong beam duplications and fixing polarization settings.

TanDEM-X and PAZ have been aligned likewise.

8

05/02/2017

Updated TerraSAR-X configuration to match the official sensor naming from Airbus.

TanDEM-X and PAZ have been aligned likewise.

7 25/01/2017 Updated Sentinel-1B orbit numbering to implement the correct relative orbit number

 

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