{"id":3724,"date":"2020-08-27T12:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T12:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-gaofen-7-satellite-put-into-service\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T12:19:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T12:19:44","slug":"chinas-gaofen-7-satellite-put-into-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-gaofen-7-satellite-put-into-service\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Gaofen-7 satellite put into service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >The China National Space Administration announced on Thursday that the Gaofen-7 Earth observation satellite has been put into service, representing significant progress for the country&#8217;s surveying and mapping capabilities.<\/p>\n<p >Launched on Nov. 3, 2019, Gaofen-7 is China&#8217;s first civil-use optical transmission 3D surveying and mapping satellite that reaches the sub-meter level.<\/p>\n<p >Equipped with two line-scan cameras and a laser altimeter, the satellite can provide 1:10,000 scale satellite 3D mapping for users in China and countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.<\/p>\n<p >During in-orbit tests, satellite functions such as the monitoring of geographical conditions, agricultural surveys, and road constructions have been verified.<\/p>\n<p >In May, using data from the Gaofen-7 and Ziyuan III satellites, scientists drew a 1:10,000 scale topographic map for surveyors to measure the height of Mount Qomolangma.<\/p>\n<p >\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The China National Space Administration announced on Thursday that the Gaofen-7 Earth observation satellite has been put into service, representing significant progress for the country&#8217;s surveying and mapping capabilities. Launched on Nov. 3, 2019, Gaofen-7 is China&#8217;s first civil-use optical transmission 3D surveying and mapping satellite that reaches the sub-meter level. Equipped with two line-scan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}