November 2017
Geospatial maritime solutions
... System (AIS) is used for collision avoidance on Aids-to-Navigation, and on aircraft involved in search and rescue (SAR) operations. The IMO’s International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea requires AIS be installed and operational on any...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... remote sensing e.g. synthetic aperture radar (SAR), electro-optical reconnaissance (EO), and electronic intelligence... launched. Jianbing X is believed to be a new type of SAR reconnaissance satellite. Yaogan 29, 33 and 33R are associated with this ...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... ICEYE satellites produces images at 50 cm resolution and each is about one hundreth of the cost of the next cheapest SAR satellite. Another example is Spire Global, which has a hundred-satellite constellation for weather observations that currently...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
... will be funding in future. Artist’s concept depicting the Space Shuttle Endeavour with the 60 m (200 ft) antenna of its SAR sensor almost deployed in Earth orbit. Today, companies are able to put this kind of sensor in a microsatellite. Patent...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... often used on each satellite. For example, GF 1, 2, 4 and 6 have high-resolution cameras and GF 3 is equipped with a C-band SAR. GF 5 has six sensors, including a hyper spectral camera and a directional polarisation camera. The extra laser altimeter...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... all-weather, day-and-night mission will enable a SAR in C band supporting Copernicus operational services for land, ...Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) and a microwave payload including a SAR Radar Altimeter (SRAL) and two frequencies microwave Radio ...
