JLGIS Agreement with MDA
The Joint Laboratory for GeoInformation Science (JLGIS) of Hong Kong signed a two-year ENVISAT data reception and distribution agreement with MDA's Geospatial Services (Canada). Data from the ASAR (A Synthetic Aperture Radar) and MERIS instruments on-board ENVISAT are now being acquired, processed and archived at the ground receiving station in Shatin, Hong Kong.
The Station is part of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, a faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The data will be used for environmental and natural disaster monitoring for Hong Kong and neighbouring regions. This area of the world is subject to natural disasters such as landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and typhoons.
The attributes of the SAR instrument - collection of data independent of weather and illumination - provide a means to monitor and collect data despite the frequent cloud cover and rains in the region.
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