Rose-L – The Copernicus L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Mission

The paper provides a summary on the context and on the updated status of the ROSE-L mission, which carries an L-Band SAR instrument and represents one of the six ESA Copernicus Sentinel Expansion missions. The overview will include the description of the SAR imaging modes and performance, as expected at the current mission phase (start of phase C), and of the synergic illumination design with Sentinel-1.