Canada Fighting Illegal Fishing in Outer-space
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…
INSAR Detection and Measurement of Land Subsidence in the Coachella Valley
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…
i2k Military Inflatables Case Study
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…
Argentina Launches SAOCOM-1B Satellite into Polar Orbit
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 SAOCOM1B Satellite
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
NRO Needs More SAR
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…
Restrictions on SAR Eliminated
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…
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CSA Issues Letter of Interest for SAR Technologies
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…
SAOCOM Launch Postponed Due To Coronavirus Travel Restrictions
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…
DIU offers SAR Heavy Solicitation
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit has started to seek offers from U.S. operators of remote sensing satellites that can provide data analytics and imagery services, SpaceNews reported Monday. A solicitation…