Repository details

RADARSAT-1

Name of repository
RADARSAT-1
Additional name(s)
  • Canada's Earth Observation Satellite
Repository URL
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/default.asp
Subject(s)
Description
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
Contact
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/what-is-radarsat1.asp
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
  • French
Data and/or service provider
  • data provider
Institution name
Canadian Space Agency
Additional name(s)
  • Agence spatiale canadienne
  • CSA
  • ASC
Identifier(s)
  • ROR:03a1gte98
Contact(s)
Country
Canada
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
MDA
Additional name(s)
  • MDA GSI
  • formerly; MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd
Contact(s)
Country
International
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
commercial

Policies (3)

Policy Name
Components and specifications
Policy Name
Treaties, laws and regulations
Policy Name
Terms and conditions

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
restricted
Database access restriction type
  • other

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
  • feeRequired
  • other

Data licenses (1)

DataLicense
Copyrights

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
closed
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Data citation guideline
https://asf.alaska.edu/data-sets/sar-data-sets/radarsat-1/
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (1)

API type
other

Remarks

Remarks
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.
Entry date
2016-05-10
Last update
2022-02-23
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re3data.org: RADARSAT-1; editing status 2022-02-23; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3Z35D last accessed: 2024-04-27