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Abstract: The year 2016 stands for nearly 40 years of civil Radar Programs and development worldwide and in Germany. Several successful SAR missions in the last 20 years, mainly ENVISAT, Radarsat and TerraSAR-X/Tandem-X, stimulated new customers like the European Commission to invest into long term SAR programs. New institutional SAR programs in Argentine, USA/India and South Korea started in parallel with new commercial initiatives like Novasar, UrtheCast, XpressSAR and IceEye. In this competitive environment innovative concepts are necessary to enable new sustainable programs. In order to benefit from the great success of TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X and to satisfy the growing demand for SAR data by scientific users, governments and commercial customers also in the future, new programs are essential in Germany. Therefore the next major milestone in the German X-Band SAR roadmap is planned with the High Resolution Wide Swath (HRWS) Mission. HRWS will provide continuity and a considerable advancement in X-band data by provision of widely improved image sensitivity and resolution as well as doubled access range. Digital Beam Forming (DBF) technique and quad polarization implementation will allow new applications.
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