# Presentation: 307248

## FOREIGN LAND IMAGING SATELLITE PROGRAMS

- PRESENTATION TO
-  NOAA’S ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR COMMERCIAL REMOTE SENSING
- 11/14/03
- W. STONEY
- MITRETEK SYSTEMS

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## FRANCE

- Current
- SPOT-4, 10 meter Pan, 20 meter MS
- SPOT-5,  2.5/5 meter Pan, 10/20 meter MS
-  Helios 1a and 1b, about 1 meter Pan, (Military)
- Planned
- 2 Pleiades (0.7 meter Pan) to be launched in 6/05 & 6/06
- Part of bilateral program with Italy’s Cosmos-Skymed   1 meter radar program
- Program is being sold as dual purpose, serving both military and civil needs (SPOT-5 has also been so advertised)
- 2 Helios 2, with higher Pan and MS. (Military)
- First could be launched as soon as ‘04
- Discussed as part of a European defense system that includes Germany’s SAR-Lupe radarsats

## ITALY & GERMANY

- Italy
- Cosmos-Skymed, 1 meter radar
- 3 satellites to be launched in 2007
- Part of a bilateral agreement with France
- Germany
- TerraSar X & L, Two 1 meter radars, 6/05 and 3/06 launch
- Funded primarily by the government for commercial operations
- SAR-Lupe, 1 meter X band radar  (Military)
- 2 under contract, a 5 satellite European system proposed
- First launch by 2005
- Rapid Eye, 6 band, 6.5 meter,158 Km swath optical system (Commercial)
- Long search for private funds, Current launch 2005
- Would potentially compete with LDCM winner

## INDIA

- Current
- IRS-1C & 1D
-  6 M Pan,  23 M MS, 188 M WF
- TESS, 1 M Pan
- Lunched as a “test” 10/22/01
- Planned
- ResourceSat-1 & -2
- 6 M Pan,  6 & 23 M MS, 188 M WF
- Launch of first TBD, missed 12/03 plan
- Second scheduled for 1/1/2006
- Cartosat-2
- 1 M Pan
- Launch mid 2004

## JAPAN

- ALOS
- 2.5 M PAN, 10 M MS, 7 M SAR
- After many delays, scheduled for mid 2004 launch
- “Information Gathering” (Military)
- 4 satellite system in 2 pairs
- Each pair includes
- 1 meter Pan
- 1 to 3 meter SAR
- Initial pair to launch in late ‘03
- 2nd pair in 6/04

## CHINA

- Current
- CBERS-1, With Brazil 10/14/99
- All the Landsat bands
- 20 M Pan, 20/40/80 M MS
- Ziyuan ZY-2A, 9 M Pan, 9/1/00
- Ziyuan ZY-2A, 3 M Pan,10/27/02
- Planned
- CBERS-2, Same, Scheduled 8/10/03
- China DMC, 4 M Pan, 32 M MS, 5/1/04
- CBERS-3, 5 M Pan, MS like 1,   5/1/05
- CBERS-4, Same as 3 		  6/1/08

## RUSSIA

- Russia has plans for a three satellite system for civil and commercial use.
**First launch in September of 2003**
- Resurs-DK-1 with a Pan 0.4 meter, 3 band MS 2 to 3 meter optical sensor
- Resurs-DK-2  and -3, with same optical system plus a 1 meter Radar
- Sovinformsputnik represented by Central Trading Systems in the US is in the process of raising financing for commercial ground stations.
- Other Russian sources have been discussing 3 satellites
- SOKOL-1 with a 1 meter Pan
- SOKOL-3 with a 0.5 meter Pan
- Condor-E with a 1 meter radar
- Central Trading Systems and Land Info International currently offer archived Russian satellite data including
- DK-1  0.95 meter data
- DK-2  1.56 meter data
- KRV-1000 2 meter data

## SURREY SSTL MINI-SATS

- Current
- UoSat-12 Singapore 10 M Pan,    5/12/99
- DMC AlSat-1 Algeria 32 M MS,  11/28/02
- First of the Disaster Management Constellation
- Planned
- DMC second launch                      8/15/03
- NigeriaSat, Nigeria 32 M MS
- ThaiPhat,Thailand, 36 M MS
- BilSat, Turkey, 12 M Pan, 26 M
- UK, England, 32 M MS
- TopSat, England, 2.5 M Pan	    11/15/03
- DMC upgrade, 4 M Pan, 32 M MS  5/1/04
- VinSat, Vietnam
- ChinaSat China
- DMC satellites will be operated as a group
- Daily overpass anywhere

## WHAT DOES THIS PLAN PLETHERIA MEAN?	

- Nationalistic concerns seem to demand national control of land imaging.
- The “dual use” mantra invoked in Europe to justify Pleiades- COSMO-Skymed and TerraSAR are cases in point
- Japan’s deployment of “Information System” military satellites that have only equal or less optical capability than currently available US satellites is another example.
- Singapore, Algeria, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea are 8 more.
- And these are mid-resolution systems
- Our technological/cost lead in optical systems is small and would seem to be getting smaller.
- SSTL’s 2.5 M TopSat quoted cost is $12 M
- Everyone else  is planning civil radarsats

## WHAT SHOULD BOARD DO ABOUT THESE PROMISED OBSERVATIONAL RICHES? 

- The board should consider recommending that NOAA and/or other agencies:
- Keep current a data base of all land imaging satellites better than Landsat.  NOAA has contracted Mitretek to begin this.
- Implement a program to purchase and evaluate the type and quality of  all image products as they become available.
- The NIMA/Stennis Jason evaluation program is an excellent example of the value of doing this.
- Neither our science or our application communities will take advantage of data they have no way of evaluating.
- NOAA should propose to its international  partners that all archive all their images, make an open meta database of their holdings and offer such data, after a suitable time period, to the international science community for COFUR, i.e. internationalize the current US Landsat policy