{"id":65615,"date":"2018-03-28T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mda-signs-multiple-contracts-for-radarsat-2-sar-data\/"},"modified":"2018-03-28T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:29:00","slug":"mda-signs-multiple-contracts-for-radarsat-2-sar-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mda-signs-multiple-contracts-for-radarsat-2-sar-data\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA Signs Multiple Contracts for Radarsat 2 SAR Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>MDA<\/strong> has recently signed multiple geospatial-related contracts based on data from the Radarsat 2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite. According to MDA, the contracts have a combined value of approximately CA$16 million ($12.4 million).<\/p>\n<p>The first contract extends provision of Radarsat 2 information to <strong>EarthStar<\/strong> up to Dec. 31, 2024. EarthStar uses the information for a variety of applications that includes land monitoring and change detection. MDA will also continue to work alongside the <strong>European Maritime Safety Agency<\/strong> (EMSA). Under this contract, MDA provides data to support EMSA in the areas of maritime safety, maritime security, law enforcement, fisheries control, and marine pollution monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>MDA extended operational support to&nbsp;Canada\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Department of National Defense<\/strong> (DND), which includes the use of the East and West Coast Radarsat 2 ground systems for the DND Polar Epsilon Near Real-Time Ship Detection system.&nbsp;Lastly, MDA will provide data information services for onshore and offshore monitoring to multiple oil and gas customers.<\/p>\n<p>MDA has developed a suite of off-the-shelf solutions that exploit SAR imagery and associated information to support maritime, forestry, infrastructure development, and surveillance applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDA has recently signed multiple geospatial-related contracts based on data from the Radarsat 2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite. According to MDA, the contracts have a combined value of approximately CA$16 million ($12.4 million). The first contract extends provision of Radarsat 2 information to EarthStar up to Dec. 31, 2024. EarthStar uses the information for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58550,"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-65615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65615"}],"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=65615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}