BIOMASS, a candidate Earth Explorer mission in Phase A, proposes to measure ice flows over Earth's major ice sheets as a secondary objective in its side-looking observation geometry. On the other hand, P-band ice sounding radar mission concepts have been proposed already for Earth Explorers (e.g. MIMOSA, CARISMA) for obtaining three-dimensional characteristics of ice sheets and underlying bedrock topography.

A successful test campaign has been performed over the UHF antenna. The UHF ANTENNA has been tested from the RF point of view and all required performances were compliant. The vibration test campaign can be considered successful since: No damage was detected during the overall vibration and shock (qualification levels) test sequence:

This activity aims at exploring the benefits which can be extracted from the fibre laser technology by designing and breadboarding a fibre laser system which fulfils the transmitter requirements of a Differential Absorption LIDAR for CO2 and CH4. Such a fibre laser system would offer the modularity for multispectral operation with narrow spectral bandwidth and high spectral stability