Information potential of new remote sensing satellite missions in environmental research

Abstract

In December of 2009 the total number of active civil remote sensing satellites was 130. One of the largest group were multitask land observation remote sensing satellites (49 missions), providing data employed in majority of Earth Sciences and applied in spatial databases. Currently many new remote sensing missions are in preparation. The 103 of them will start in 2010 – 2015 and 24 in 2016 – 2025 period. The aim of this research was to analyse the possibilities of employment of the new remote sensing data to produce spatial data, and to investigate the suitability of usage of this data. To achieve these goals, it was necessary to classify the types of remote sensing data. The next step was the analysis of the possibility of production thematic information for supplying spatial databases. The investigations allowed to identify the new trends concerning the design of new remote sensing missions and enabled to estimate the possibilities of employment of remote sensing data to produce spatial data, as well as to estimate the opportunities to use them for supplying spatial databases

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