UoSAT-12 minisatellite for high performance earth observation at low cost

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 173-182

  Fouquet, Marc ^a   Sweeting, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; COST EFFECTIVENESS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE PLATFORMS; SPACE RESEARCH;

AUTOMATIC IMAGE PROCESSING; MINISATELLITES; PANCHROMATIC IMAGING INSTRUMENTS;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

EID: 0031200474     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(97)00181-1     Document Type: Article

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