Turkey unveils National Space Program including SAR Mission
High-resolution provider Gokturk 3 will be sent soon and Turksat 6A is set to launch in 2022. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced 10 goals as he revealed the country’s domestic space…
Digital Technique for Generating Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
This paper describes a digital processing method applicable to a synthetic aperture radar, to be carried by the space shuttle or by satellites. The method uses an earth-fixed coordinate system…
SAR Takes a Long Look at California Forest Fire Damage and Regrowth
Landscape ecologist Naiara Pinto and colleagues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to take a long view at forest fires in California, trying to decipher…
Umbra Hits “Jackpot” for 15cm Resolution Images
Umbra, a geospatial intelligence data provider, was granted a license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite with 1,200 MHz of bandwidth. This…
RADARSAT to Track the $23B Illegal Fishing Market with New Contract
It’s estimated that illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing accounts for about 30 per cent of all fishing activity worldwide, representing up to 26 million tonnes of fish caught annually…
Davao Ground Station to directly receive NovaSAR-1 data
The Philippines’ Ground Receiving Station (GRS) in Davao is currently having its facelift to directly receive data from earth-observation NovaSAR-1 satellite in a bid to strengthen the country’s disaster response,…
RADARSAT-2 CONTINUITY MISSION
MDA announced that they have embarked on a major new initiative to build a commercial Earth observation satellite mission, which will serve to extend MDA’s market-leading geospatial data, products and…
Invariant Reps ICEYE
Invariant Reps Satellite Maker Invariant, the D.C. government affairs shop headed by lobbying powerhouse and Democratic insider Heather Podesta, has inked a pact with Finnish microsatellite start-up Iceye to handle…
Two More COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation Satellites
E-geos and Thales are completely un phased by new space and are doubling down on COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation Satellites. With two more spacecraft. Massimo Comparini, who serves as the head of…
Synspective SAR Image…
Synspective has acquired its first image from its debut Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, marking the first commercial SAR image from a Japanese company. The satellite, dubbed striX-α, was launched…