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Canadian RADARSAT Constellation Mission to support disaster relief efforts

An artistic representation of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission. Image: Canadian Space Agency.

On 12 June 2019, a trio of identical Canadian Earth observation satellites, which will help monitor climate change and save lives during natural disasters, among other applications, were successfully launched into space from a SpaceX Falcon 9... read more

Publishing Date: 21/06/2019

Images from Canada’s first Earth observation satellite made available to the public

Image showing the movement of the Lambert Glacier, with ice velocity vectors obtained by using RADARSAT Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from the 2000 Antarctic Mapping Mission. Image: Canadian Space Agency/NASA/Ohio State University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Alaska SAR facility. Retrieved from NASA Earth Observatory.

The Canadian Space Agency and the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation have released 36,500 RADARSAT-1 images, which are available at no cost on the Government of Canada’s Earth Observation Data Management System. Having aided relief operations in 244 disaster events through the images it captured, the Canadian RADARSAT-1 satellite now has the opportunity to... read more

Publishing Date: 27/05/2019

Soil moisture data sets become fertile ground for applications

Screenshot of ORNL DAAC Soil Moisture Visualizer.

An integrated data platform has been created to bring together a wide variety of in situ and remotely-sensed soil moisture data sets to better inform disaster... read more

Publishing Date: 18/02/2019

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