{"id":84883,"date":"2011-05-08T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T10:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mdas-radarsat-2-monitoring-service-contracted-by-canadian-oil-company\/"},"modified":"2011-05-08T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T10:37:07","slug":"mdas-radarsat-2-monitoring-service-contracted-by-canadian-oil-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mdas-radarsat-2-monitoring-service-contracted-by-canadian-oil-company\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA\u2019s Radarsat-2 Monitoring Service Contracted by Canadian Oil Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-08-11] Canadian information solutions provider <b>MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates<\/b> (MDA) has signed multi-year contracts totaling more than $1 million to supply oil field monitoring products to an unnamed integrated energy company in Alberta, Canada, MDA announced May 6.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To support the contracts, MDA said it would apply advanced Radarsat-2 high-resolution surveillance capabilities that include a large collection capacity and high-accuracy to detect subtle surface changes, independent of weather, and over the entire oil fields. MDA also will provide analytical reports that compare historical movements with current situations.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cEarly detection of surface movement allows the company to enhance production and mitigate environmental risks in their oil fields,\u201d MDA said in a company statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Radarsat-2 Earth observation satellite, launched in December 2007, fills a wide variety of application roles for MDA, including: sea ice mapping and ship routing; iceberg detection; agricultural crop monitoring; marine surveillance for ship and pollution detection; terrestrial defense surveillance and target identification; geological mapping; land use mapping; wetlands mapping; and topographic mapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-08-11] Canadian information solutions provider MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has signed multi-year contracts totaling more than $1 million to supply oil field monitoring products to an unnamed integrated energy company in Alberta, Canada, MDA announced May 6. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To support the contracts, MDA said it would apply advanced Radarsat-2 high-resolution surveillance capabilities that include [&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-84883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84883"}],"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=84883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}