China Fully Covered

"What the Ministry wanted was an ambitious task. They wanted 80% of China, almost 8 million square kilometers, with less than 10% cloud cover in a six month time window. I don't think we even realised when we signed how challenging it would be," remarked Massimilliano Vitale, Head of RapidEye's Operations Department. "When you look at the statistical cloud cover for this area, over half of it rides at about 70%. Finding the right pass to get a relatively cloud-free image is often done quite by chance."

The RapidEye system is able to return to any point on Earth daily. Over the past few months, the satellites could be repeatedly found over China. In order to insure successful delivery to the Chinese MLR, China was the focus when the satellites had any 'spare time'. As a result of this approach, most areas of the country were imaged five, and in some cases six times in order to fulfill the contractual requirements.

Now that the RapidEye Level 1B imagery has been delivered, it is up to the Ministry of Land Resources to piece all of the tiles together to create a mosaic. The MLR has several potential uses for the imagery, including using it to protect their agricultural lands from urban sprawl.

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