TerraSAR-X data collections consist of up to 0.25 m and 40 m resolution data products from the TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument, processed to Level-1. Products are available in the following modes:

• Stripmap (SM)
• ScanSAR (SC)
• Wide ScanSAR (WS)
• Spotlight (SL)
• Staring SpotLight (ST)
• High Resolution SpotLight (HS)

With the following geometric projections:

• Single Look Slant Range Complex (SSC)
• Multi-Look Ground Range Detected (MGD)
• Enhanced Ellipsoid Corrected (EEC)

There are two main packages for the products:

• Interferometry package (In)
• Maritime Monitoring package (Mm)

Samples of the TerraSAR-X products are available over ESA's test site at Neustrelitz in Germany, which you can use to preview what the data collections offer in order to assess their type and resolution. If you would like to compare TerraSAR-X products with other missions, download sample data from other Third Party Missions.

Each sample data TAR file contains a .TIFF of the processed product, and specifications of the acquired scene.

Download TerraSAR-X sample data

• Staring Spotlight (ST) sample data (270 MB)
• High Resolution SpotLight (HS) sample data (194 MB)
• Spotlight (SL) sample data (51 MB)
• Stripmap (SM) sample data (1 GB)
• ScanSAR (SC) sample data (307 MB)
• Wide ScanSAR (WS) sample data (155 MB) 

TerraSAR-X data collections

If these samples suit your requirements, learn more about the TerraSAR-X data collections and find out how to download products from this mission:

• TerraSAR-X ESA archive
• TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X full archive and tasking

The Full Archive and Tasking collection is available to order on demand upon submission of a Project Proposal subject to evaluation and acceptance by ESA and the data owner.

Products distributed via ESA dissemination services are published in EO-SIP format, which is a package that contains the metadata file, browse images, and original data in their native format.