On 4 April 2018 the NSO KNW project NL-RIA (Dutch network on small spaceborne radar instruments and applications) started with a kick-off meeting in the Science centre at TU Delft. The meeting was widely attended by both users and instrument researchers/ developers from various institutes, companies and TU Delft. In a series of presentations and lively discussions the state of the art and new ideas for small radar remote sensing instruments were discussed.
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Several workpackages of the project officially started at this event. Next step will be specialist meetings in the coming months to further identify and refine innovative ideas for radar missions.
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