r3d100011995 RADARSAT-1 Canada's Earth Observation Satellite https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/default.asp Launched in November 1995, RADARSAT-1 provided Canada and the world with an operational radar satellite system capable of timely delivery of large amounts of data. Equipped with a powerful synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument, it acquired images of the Earth day or night, in all weather and through cloud cover, smoke and haze. RADARSAT-1 was a Canadian-led project involving the Canadian federal government, the Canadian provinces, the United States, and the private sector. It provided useful information to both commercial and scientific users in such fields as disaster management, interferometry, agriculture, cartography, hydrology, forestry, oceanography, ice studies and coastal monitoring. In 2007, RADARSAT-2 was launched, producing over 75,000 images per year since. In 2019, the RADARSAT Constellation Mission was deployed, using its three-satellite configuration for all-condition coverage. More information about RADARSAT-2 see https://mda.space/en/geo-intelligence/ RADARSAT-2 PORTAL see https://gsiportal.mda.space/gc_cp/#/map https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/contact.asp r-sat@asc-csa.gc.ca disciplinary 1995-11-04 2013 eng fra 2 Life Sciences 207 Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture and Veterinary Medicine 20709 Inventory Control and Use of Forest Resources 23 Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture and Veterinary Medicine 3 Natural Sciences 313 Atmospheric Science and Oceanography 31301 Atmospheric Science 31302 Oceanography 315 Geophysics and Geodesy 31502 Geodesy, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics, Cartogaphy 317 Geography 318 Water Research 31801 Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management 34 Geosciences (including Geography) https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/what-is-radarsat1.asp Images Raw data dataProvider Antarctic Mapping Mission - AMM aerospace cartography coastal monitoring disaster management earth observation forestry hydrology ice studies images interferometry observation satellite oceanography remote sensing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Canadian Space Agency ASC Agence spatiale canadienne CSA CAN funding general non-profit https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/default.asp ROR:03a1gte98 https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/contact.asp MDA MDA GSI formerly; MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd AAA general technical commercial https://mda.space/en/ https://mda.space/en/contact Components and specifications https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/components.asp Terms and conditions https://www.canada.ca/en/transparency/terms.html Treaties, laws and regulations https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/laws.html restricted other restricted feeRequired other Copyrights https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/terms.asp#copyright closed unknown https://www.asf.alaska.edu/ none https://asf.alaska.edu/data-sets/sar-data-sets/radarsat-1/ unknown yes Access to data is provided by Canadian Space Agency, MDA and Alaska Satellite Facility Order Desk, in Fairbanks, Alaska https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/contact.asp . Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) operates two satellite telemetry ground stations that provide North American reception coverage: the Prince Albert Satellite Station in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and the Gatineau Satellite Station located in Cantley, Quebec. Operating in a multi-mission environment, these stations receive Earth observation data from several satellites. They have created an archive in excess of 270 Terabytes of EO data. Certain data sets are delivered in near real time to support applications such as ice monitoring by the Canadian Ice Service, since 1991, and forest fire monitoring and mapping by the Canadian Forest Service, since 1999. These stations serve also as Canadian ground segment component of RADARSAT-1 operation. 2016-05-10 2022-02-23