lunes, 29 de abril de 2013


    Today I will to speak about a website related to my study field, this website I the following


    This is a Canadian website that shows the features and applications of the also Canadian “RADARSAT” satellites, (RADARSAT 1 and 2), and this website belongs to the CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY´s website

  The two RADARSAT satellites are modern devices that operate using radar waves for the remote sensing; the images that they produce are in white and black because these images are produced like the vision of a bat.


(this is a RADARSAT image of Canada)


    These satellites are considered like active because they don´t need one external light source to work, for this reason they can to operate (to watch the Earth´s surface) in the day and in the night, but also in any climatic condition, or under extreme condition like storms, volcanic eruptions, forest fires and any condition that hides the vision for other passive satellites.
  
 The uses that we can make are many, but I will present the most common uses:

-          Ice vigilance (polar latitudes)
-          Maritime surveillance ( everywhere in the Earth´s oceans)
-          Disaster management ( storms, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and  human disasters)
-          Hydrology (management of the safe water supplies)
-          Mapping (whole watching of the Earth´s surface)
-          Geology ( management and exploration of minerals and fossil combustibles)
-          Agriculture ( constant watching of the crops )
-          Forestry  (constant monitoring of the fire emergences)



(one RADARSAT satellite in the space)

     In summary, these satellites offer an almost unlimited source of information for us, in Chile we can to use these images for the monitoring of south of our country in many applications, (remember that these satellites can to see through the clouds).

     I invite to you to know about these modern devices in the following website:

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat2/applications.asp

Till the next week. 

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