Satellite pictures are a leading source of primary data on the ever-changing ice covers of the world's polar and mid-latitude seas. We have seen over the past 30 years a phenomenal increase in the number of active earth observation satellite systems and a corresponding rise in the volume of archived image data produced by those systems.
Yamal Peninsula, Russia
CANATEC's Satellite Data Group manages all segments of a satellite remote sensing program:
- Cataloguing of existing archive data sources, costs, and relevance to a client's current need.
- Procurement of archive scenes and programming/acquisition of new data.
- Expert interpretation of ice information from all satellite sensors (optical, infra-red, radar).
- Operational ice reconnaissance coordination (advance image acquisition planning, procurement, processing, geo-rectification, same-day delivery to operations location).
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Satellite systems used by the Satellite Data Group:
- QuickBird (60 cm resolution)
- IKONOS (1 m resolution)
- SPOT (5 to 10 m resolution)
- Landsat (15 m resolution)
- Envisat (all-weather, through-cloud imaging at 25 m resolution)
- European Remote Sensing satellites (ERS; all-weather, through-cloud imaging at 25 m resolution)
- Radarsat (all-weather, through-cloud imaging at 10 m to 100 m resolution)
- MOS (archived 50 m resolution data from discontinued Japanese program)
- Terra (MODIS sensor at 250 m resolution, high frequency of coverage)
- NOAA weather satellites (1,100 m resolution, high frequency of coverage)
Northwest Passage, Canada
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