Government Synthetic Aperture Radar missions
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…
Globally, IUU fishing is a major contributor to declining fish stocks and marine habitat destruction. It is estimated that IUU fishing accounts for about 30 per cent of all fishing…
Groundwater has been a major source of agricultural, recreational, municipal, and domestic supply in the Coachella Valley of California since the early 1920s. Pumping of groundwater resulted in groundwater-level declines…
THE SITUATION The U.S. Armed Force is constantly looking for new ways to train their operatives in the detection of enemy vehicles and aircraft. One technique that they use is…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched Argentina’s SAOCOM-1B satellite into polar orbit, a flight path quite different from most vehicles launched from the East Coast of the U.S. which normally head…
Successful deployment of Argentina's #SAOCOM1B satellite! This radar sat will be measuring soil moisture content, an important indicator for agriculture. https://twitter.com/tanyaofmars/status/1300215843977134081?s=20
AI need for NRO’s efforts to use large constellations of small satellites in the future to fill the huge appetite within the Intelligence Community and the military services for remote…
The new rules heavily benefit two American companies Maxar a optical imagery provider and Umbra Lab a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery provider both have satellite systems that were being seriously restricted…
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has issued a Letter of Interest (LOI) for seven priority technologies the agency wants industry to develop under its Space Technology Development Program. The technologies…
Argentina’s Satélite Argentino de Observación Con Microondas (SAOCOM) comprises two L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation satellites – SAOCOM-1A (launched by SpaceX in October 2018) and SAOCOM-1B. Both satellites were built…