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Envisat - Europe's newest scientific satellite / Gordon Petrie in Geoinformatics, vol 5 n° 2 (01/03/2002)

Public [article]  inGeoinformatics > vol 5 n° 2 (01/03/2002) . - pp 6 - 9 Titre : Envisat - Europe's newest scientific satellite Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Gordon Petrie, Auteur Année de publication : 2002 Article en page(s) : pp 6 - 9 Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Technologies spatiales [Termes IGN] Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer [Termes IGN] Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar [Termes IGN] bande spectrale [Termes IGN] détecteur à transfert de charge [Termes IGN] ENVISAT [Termes IGN] image à très haute résolution [Termes IGN] Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Résumé : (Auteur) At the begining of march, the European Space Agency (ESA) is scheduled to have its new polar-orbiting satellite, Envisat, launched from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guyana using the powerful Ariane-5 rocket. Given the satellite's huge size (10m in heigh) weight (8,5 tons) and cost ($2,3 billion) and the large battery of imagers and other sensors that have been mounted on it, this is probably the single most important Earth observation project that has ever been undertaken by ESA.. Indeed one can hardly contemplate the consequences for the Agency should there be a launch failure or a situation where the satellite cannot be operate fully. Not only have many of the current hopes of ESA been invested in Envisat, but so are the hopes of the large numbers of scientists who have signed up to use the data that will be generated by the satellite's imagers and other instruments. Indeed its importance within the scientific segment of the European space remote sensing community can hardly be over emphasized - especially for those involved in various different aspects concerning the monitoring of the environment on a global scale. Numéro de notice : A2002-269 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE/POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : sans Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=22180 [article]

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