Sentences with phrase «operating imaging satellites»
Not exact matches
MBRSC operates two DubaiSat Earth - imaging satellites, built with South Korea; an MBRSC team is going solo on a third imaging satellite called KhalifaSat, which is slated for a late 2017 launch from Japan aboard a Mitsubishi rocket.
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It's not so difficult, only needs several satellites on high orbit, wideband imaging facilities installed with good temporal resolution and lots of surface based transmitters, operating in many narrow frequency bands, emitting a unique long period pseudorandom sequence in each band and at each transmitter.
The two satellites are in a polar orbit with an inclination of about 82 degrees and operates 3 distinct instruments: a radar altimeter; an imaging spectrometer; and an infrared radiometer.
This data set uses freely available satellite imagery, collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), which operates on NASA's Terra and Aqua (EOS PM) satellite platforms and views the entire Earth's surface every 1 to 2 days.