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Astrium to Provide Pléiades and SPOT Direct Access Services to the Canadian Department of Defense |
 Astrium GEO-Information Services has been awarded a contract in North America by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) to deliver Pléiades 1 & 2 and SPOT 5, 6 & 7 Direct Access capabilities to the Canadian Department of Defense (DND) as part of the Joint Space Support Project (JSSP). The corresponding Terminals will be integrated by MDA as part of two deployable satellite surveillance systems, providing DND access to Astrium's full range of optical imaging satellite capabilities.
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Satellite Imagery to Help Protect Africa's Forests
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Astrium and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) are launching the first satellite imagery portal aimed at protecting the forests of Africa. More than 600 satellite images are now available to help monitor changes in forest cover and to measure the effectiveness of strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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| Images Show Large Crack on Pine Island Glacier |
 Two TerraSAR-X StripMap acquisitions (3.5m resolution) recorded on 06 November 2011 show the large crack that has formed on Pine Island glacier, one of the largest and fastest-moving glaciers in Antarctica. NASA researchers flying over Antarctica have recently discovered this ongoing iceberg calving event. The part of the ice shelf that is ready to break off has a surface area of about 890 square kilometers (340 square miles) and thus is larger than New York City.
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| Looking for a Landsat 5 Alternative? |
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With the recent announcement that Landsat 5 experienced a rapid degradation in several components related to the MSS imaging system, users are faced with the real possibility that Landsat 5 will no longer be collecting new data, and they will need to find alternate data sources. Astrium GEO-Information Services offers medium resolution data from several sources, which could be used to fill the gap left by the loss of Landsat 5. Deimos-1 offers 3-band multispectral data, which is nearly identical to the Landsat bands 2, 3 & 4. Deimos-1 collects at a 22m resolution and is available in either 8 or 10 bit formats. Another benefit of Deimos-1 is its ability to cover large areas thanks to the 620 km collection swath. When applications call for higher resolution data or require SWIR (Mid-IR) band information, SPOT 4 & 5 data is a great option. In addition, SPOT imagery over the contiguous U.S. is already available to government users through the USGS Earth Explorer website.
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