SATELLITE INSTRUMENT
CANON ELECTRIC SATELLITE
Since 2017, Canon Electronics launched three remote sensing micro-satellites (CE-SAT-I, IIB and IE) equipped with high-sensitivity Canon digital cameras to perform sub-metre imagery of the Earth surface, also during nighttime.
TYPE OF INSTRUMENT
Canon digital cameras
STATUS
Operational
DATA AVAILABILITY
Selected data freely available
TIME RANGE
Since 2017
FREQUENCY OF MEASUREMENT
Not specified
DATA PUBLISHING FREQUENCY
n/a
DATA PUBLISHING DELAY
n/a
MORE INFORMATION
CALIBRATED DATA
No
MEASUREMENT UNIT
n/a
WAVELENGTH RANGE
RGBA
OBSERVED AREA
Global
FIELD-OF-VIEW
about 5 km swath
POINTING DIRECTION
Not specified
SPATIAL RESOLUTION
0.8 – 5 m
ORBIT TYPE
Sun-synchronous polar orbits (500 – 670 km)
FURTHER REFERENCES
– CE-SAT Series on RESTEC / Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan
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