EADS Defence & Security (DS), Germany, has choosen IXSEA for a navigation and positioning application and has purchased eight ADVANS LYRA units; further orders are expected to follow. The units...

The TanDEM-X radar satellite designed and built by Astrium (Germany) was successfully launched early this morning. At 04:14 hours CEST (08:14 hours local time), a Russian Dnepr launch vehicle carrying...

Entrepreneurs at ESA's Business Incubation centre in the Netherlands have used radar technology from the Envisat remote-sensing satellite to develop a compact, high-resolution radar that can monitor land and buildings...

Airbus' third instrument for the Sentinel-1 satellite series features a world premiere of a new separation mechanism which will help avoid space debris. The C-band radar for the Copernicus Sentinel-1C...

In this article, Craig Simmonds presents massive advances in ground-probing radar and discusses the journey of the technology over the past quarter of a century. He particularly highlights the major...

The ‘Sentinel-1 for Science: Amazonas’ project, led by ESA, supports the monitoring and mitigation of climate change-related impact on forests by processing radar images to detect forest loss. The project...

Airbus has launched its new series of radar-derived Ground Control Points (GCPs), offering high point density and centimetre-level accuracy. Users can extract accurate 3D coordinates from high-resolution stereo radar imagery...

Hexagon, a global leader in digital solutions, has introduced the Leica DSX, a portable ground penetrating radar (GPR) solution for underground utility detection. Designed to simplify data capture and automate...

The first all-UK NovaSAR radar satellite, developed jointly by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and Airbus, has sent back its debut images which feature Sydney Harbour and the Egyptian pyramids. The...

The radar imaging satellite NovaSAR-1, carrying an Airbus S-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), has been successfully launched on a PSLV launcher from India. The spacecraft was built under the leadership...