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SDS -4 Session 2 Mission updates. CBERS-3 INPE – CRESDA. CBERS-3 Launch and commissioning. CBERS-3 is ready for launch – December 27 th , 2013 Commissioning phase – 3 months 10 days for initial tests before it reaches the final orbit
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SDS-4 Session 2Mission updates CBERS-3 INPE – CRESDA
CBERS-3 Launch and commissioning • CBERS-3 is ready for launch – December 27th, 2013 • Commissioning phase – 3 months • 10 days for initial tests before it reaches the final orbit • 75 days for in-orbit tests (subsystems, performance and payload functionalities) • Beginning of operational phase – April 2014 • Design lifetime – 3 years • Data policy – free and open access
CBERS-3 Acquisition strategy • CBERS-3 is driven by national and regional applications over Brazil, China and Africa, and to provide data to the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters • Application 1 • Brazil and China • Default acquisition mode: full coverage, nadir viewing, 4 cameras • Application 2 • CBERS for Africa initiative • Default acquisition mode: full coverage, nadir viewing, 4 cameras, over operational ground stations in Africa
CBERS-3 CBERS for Africa initiative South Africa, Hartebeeshoek – CSIR/SANSA CBERS-2B agreements Spain, The Canary Islands, Maspalomas – INTA Egypt, Aswan – NARSS Gabon is setting up a ground station for CBERS Agreement signed with SANSA for CBERS-3 Near future New agreements Kenya (Malindi, Nairobi) to cover Equatorial Africa Agreement signed with INTA for CBERS-3 Agreement signed with AGEOS for CBERS-3
CBERS-3 Acquisition strategy • Capacity to accommodate GFOI acquisition requests • Full coverage over Brazil (2 passes/day) and China (3 passes/day) • Full coverage over ground stations in Africa (2 passes/day) • Best effort to cover any other region using the OBDR (1 pass/day) • Capacity to augment plan “on the fly” • 15 minutes duty cycle for each camera • Solid state OBDR with capacity of 274 Gbits • OBDR can record 15 minutes per day (maximum) • 50% time share between Brazil and China
CBERS-3 Data processing • Processing levels • Terrain corrected images, where digital elevation data are available • System corrected image data • Data formats • Standard GeoTIFF • Means of data distribution • Open access on www.dgi.inpe.br/CDSR
SDS-4 Session 2Mission updates Thank you! CBERS-3 INPE – CRESDA