Biomass End-to-End mission performance assessment

Conference Paper (2012)
Author(s)

Paco Lopez-Dekker (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))

Jose A. Garcia (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))

Francesco De Zan (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))

Thomas Borner (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))

Marwan Younis (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))

Kostas Papathanassiou (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))

Tomas Guardabrazo (Deimos Space)

Valerie Bourlon (Thales Alenia Space)

Sophie Ramongassie (Thales Alenia Space)

Nicolas Taveneau (Thales Alenia Space)

Lars Ulander (Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI))

Daniel Murdin (Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI))

Neil Rogers (University of Sheffield)

Shaun Quegan (University of Sheffield)

Raffaella Franco (European Space Agency (ESA))

Research Group
Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350810 Final published version
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Publication Year
2012
Language
English
Research Group
Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning
Article number
6350810
Pages (from-to)
1602-1605
Event
IGARSS 2012 - Remote Sensing for a Dynamic Earth, Munich, Germany (2012-07-22 - 2012-07-27), Piscataway, NJ, USA, Munich, Germany
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Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the BIOMASS Mission End-to-End simulator (BEES) and of the mission performance analysis performed with it. The end-to-end performance, in terms of biomass estimates error, is close to the 20% error goal set for the mission. The main sources of errors are temporal decorrelation and the limited available bandwidth, while system induced errors have a negligible impact on the final performance.