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OAS platform Detail for RADARSAT-2
| platforms_id: | 12454 |
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| Name: | RADARSAT-2 |
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| Countries: | CANADA |
| Comments: | Name *: RADARSAT-2 Country: Canada Platform Class *: 65-Orbiting satellite Operations/Responsible organization:MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) Previous Name: N/A Launched Date: 2007-12-14 Commissioned Date: 2008-04-25 Decommissioned Date: Current Length (m): 3.7; width (m): 1.36 Notes +: RADARSAT-2, the second in a series of Canadian spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, was built by MacDonald Dettwiler, Richmond, Canada and jointly funded by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and MDA. It is a single-sensor C-band (5.405 GHz) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) with multiple polrization modes, including a fully polarimetric mode in which HH, HV, VV and VH polarized data are acquired. It's highest resolution is 1 m in Spotlight mode (3 m in Ultra Fine mode) with 100 m positional accuracy requirement. In ScanSAR Wide Beam mode the SAR has a nominal swath width of 500 km and an imaging resolution of 100 m. GCMD Platform Keyword - "Earth Observation Satellites","RADARSAT","RADARSAT-2","" Info Source: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat2/default.asp http://gs.mdacorporation.com/SatelliteData/Radarsat2/Radarsat2.aspx |
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| Metadata version: | 0 |
| Keydate: | 2015-02-26 16:22:09+00 |
| Editdate: | 2015-02-26 16:22:09+00 |