Imaging Polar Areas from a Daily Revisit Satellite
- Paper number
IAC-08.B1.I.10
- Author
Dr. An-Ming Wu, National Space Organization, Taiwan, China
- Year
2008
- Abstract
The feature of daily revisit of FORMOSAT-2 satellite with 2m resolution images is further extended to the four unique capabilities: large area imaging with multiple strips, urgent imaging at the first time, dynamic imaging for fast moving objects, and limit imaging up to the geographic poles. This demonstrates that FORMOSAT-2 is the only one high-resolution imaging satellite which can daily cover the worldwide areas. Since the polar areas are a key part of the global system, the satellite images will help to show evidences of global changes. To support the International Polar Year activities, FORMOSAT-2 satellite is scheduled to take images from spring 2006 to spring 2009. There are 81 targets in north polar area, including glaciers and ice shelfs in Greenland, Canada, and Russia. There are 40 targets in Antarctic areas, including Crane Glacier, Wilkins Ice Shelf, and Mertz Glacier. The daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally, and yearly changes of the targets are observed from the FORMOSAT-2 images, which are also correlated with the images of MODIS, PALSAR, and ENVISAT.
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