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RADARSAT Basics
6.0 RADARSAT Basics
What is RADARSAT?
animation showing the different parts of RADARSAT-1, Solar Array, Bus module, Payload Module, S-Band Antenna, X-Band Antenna and SAR Antenna |
RADARSAT-1 Canada's premier remote sensing satellite
RADARSAT-1 is Canada's first earth-observation satellite. Its launch on Nov. 4, 1995 represented the successful
outcome of a program jointly developed by the Canadian Government, provincial governments, and private industry.
RADARSAT is a reliable source of data. It produces images that are useful to researchers and operational users
working in such fields as:
- Arctic and off-shore surveillance,
- ice, ocean monitoring,
- geology and geologic hazard monitoring
- agriculture,
- cartography,
- hydrology,
- forestry, and
- mapping.
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