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Outsight Expands into Asia-Pacific with a New Hong Kong Office to Propel the Deployment of of It’s 3D Lidar Software
Following its recent expansion across Europe with the establishment...
Hexagon and Hitachi Zosen sign agreement to provide TerraStar-X Enterprise corrections in Japan
Calgary, Canada – Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division and Hitachi...
China launches “Macao Science 1” space exploration satellites
JIUQUAN, May 21 (Xinhua) -- China successfully sent two...
Isro’s Chandrayaan-3 launch likely on July 12
The Indian Space Research Organisation is expected to launch...
SpaceX sends Saudi astronauts, including nation’s 1st woman in space, to International Space Station
Saudi Arabia’s first astronauts in decades rocketed toward the...
Singapore Tourism Board partners with Google to create Augmented Reality tours
Google’s ARCore and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) launched...
India’s New Space Policy Allows Full Private Sector Involvement
Long dominated almost exclusively by the government, the Indian...
Bayanat, Yahsat and ICEYE announce an ambitious program to broaden commercial opportunities across the UAE space-ecosystem
The program aims to develop a constellation of five LEO...
International Code Council and Dubai Municipality Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Promote Safe, Innovative Construction
The collaboration supports the position of the Emirate of...
Malaysian Space Agency receives Geospatial World Excellence Award for use of technology in monitoring rice crops
KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 — The Malaysian Space Agency...

radar imaging

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Tamil Nadu Woman Behind Thursday’s Microwave Satellite Project

When India's heaviest microwave satellite is launched into space Thursday, there will be another reason to cheer as it is a woman who is the director of the key project. After 'Missile woman' Tessy Thomas, who was...

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

New ISRO Centre to Control Satellite Launch

The Indian rocket that will carry the 1,850 kg indigenous surveillance satellite - Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) - to the skies this month will be controlled by the new mission control centre at Sriharikota, said a senior...

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

What Are the Advantages of Radar Imagery?

With the planned launch of an Indian-built radar surveillance satellite (Risat-1) next month, it seems timely to address some of the advantages of radar imaging versus other imagery data types. In Asia in particular, the ability of...