{"id":81,"date":"2022-03-28T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2022-03-28T15:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T15:48:08","slug":"mission-phases","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/?page_id=81","title":{"rendered":"Mission Phases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harmony will alternate two flight configurations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In the StereoSAR phase, the Harmony satellites will fly respectively between 350 km and 400 km ahead and behind one of the Sentinel-1 mission satellites. The resulting three-satellite system provides three directional views. This provides information about the directional roughness of the surface, which is then used to retrieve surface wind stress and velocity-vector estimates using either short-baseline along-track interferometry (for ocean surface motions and sea ice) or repeat-pass differential interferometry (for solid-Earth and land-ice).<\/li><li>In the XTI-phase, the two Harmony spacecraft will fly in close formation forming a single-pass interferometer, with baselines of a few hundred meters. This will provide time series of surface elevation maps, which will be used to quantify volume changes over, for example, glaciers and volcanoes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MissionPhases-1024x443.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MissionPhases-1024x443.png 1024w, https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MissionPhases-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MissionPhases-768x332.png 768w, https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MissionPhases-1536x664.png 1536w, https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MissionPhases-2048x885.png 2048w, https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MissionPhases-449x194.png 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harmony will alternate two flight configurations: In the StereoSAR phase, the Harmony satellites will fly respectively between 350 km and 400 km ahead and behind one of the Sentinel-1 mission satellites. The resulting three-satellite system provides three directional views. This provides information about the directional roughness of the surface, which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/84"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmony.tudelft.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}