{"id":76116,"date":"2014-09-23T21:54:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/csa-grants-mda-three-rd-contracts\/"},"modified":"2014-09-23T21:54:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:54:59","slug":"csa-grants-mda-three-rd-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/csa-grants-mda-three-rd-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"CSA Grants MDA Three R&#038;D Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-23-2014] The <b>Canadian Space Agency <\/b>(CSA) has awarded <b>MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates <\/b>(MDA) with three projects to apply satellite data to national interests: tracking ships, geo-hazard monitoring, and logging and deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, MDA is tasked with evaluating the application of radar and optical imagery to accelerate the locating and tracking of ships. The second project involves providing a better means of monitoring geo-hazards in pipeline corridors. MDA will look for geographic changes that could lead to landslides or other phenomenon that could compromise pipelines.<\/p>\n<p>CSA\u2019s final project charges MDA with proving the value of Radarsat 2 for tracking logging and deforestation. Information from this study may be used in the <b>Canadian Forest Service<\/b>\u2019s disturbance mapping practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-23-2014] The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) with three projects to apply satellite data to national interests: tracking ships, geo-hazard monitoring, and logging and deforestation. Under the agreement, MDA is tasked with evaluating the application of radar and optical imagery to accelerate the locating and tracking of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76117,"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-76116","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\/76116"}],"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=76116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}