PHARUS market assessment report. Final report
report
ln recent years PHARUS, a phased array synthetic aperture radar airborne instrument, has been developed by a Dutch team of institutes. Now that the experimental value for PHARUS has been demonstrated, it is important to investigate the commercial potential of this instrument in an end-to-end system for operational services.
ln the presented study, the PHARUS system as-is is described as well as its applications and potentials. ln addition, the market and the competitors are examined.
It is concluded that:
. both bathymetry and tropicalforest monitoring are valuable applications which should be investigated in more detail
. for commercial applications, improvements of today's PHARUS instrument are needed:
. for the bathymetry, the high-resolution mode being the most relevant one, faster data processing is highly desirable
. for tropical forest monitoring, interferometry has to be implemented in support of an operational system
. the end-to-end approach, advocated for these applications, provides a leading edge with respect to competitors
. clustering of parties, providing the required capabilities for this approach, is a condition for commercial success
The latter condition can be met by the formation of an industrial consortium, for which this study team
can be viewed as a precursor.
ln the presented study, the PHARUS system as-is is described as well as its applications and potentials. ln addition, the market and the competitors are examined.
It is concluded that:
. both bathymetry and tropicalforest monitoring are valuable applications which should be investigated in more detail
. for commercial applications, improvements of today's PHARUS instrument are needed:
. for the bathymetry, the high-resolution mode being the most relevant one, faster data processing is highly desirable
. for tropical forest monitoring, interferometry has to be implemented in support of an operational system
. the end-to-end approach, advocated for these applications, provides a leading edge with respect to competitors
. clustering of parties, providing the required capabilities for this approach, is a condition for commercial success
The latter condition can be met by the formation of an industrial consortium, for which this study team
can be viewed as a precursor.
TNO Identifier
95429
ISBN
90-541-1244-1
Publisher
Beleidscommissie Remote Sensing BCRS
Collation
50 p.
Place of publication
Delft