Small satellites for global coverage: Potential and limits

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 492-504

  Sandau, Rainer ^a   Brieß, Klaus ^b   D'Errico, Marco ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earth observation; Small satellites; Space mission

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; COMMERCIAL OFF THE SHELVES; COST-EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; DATA DISTRIBUTION; DRIVE DEVELOPMENT; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; GENERAL TRENDS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL COVERAGE; GROUND STATION NETWORKS; INFORMATION REQUIREMENT; OBSERVATION TECHNIQUES; RAPID EXPANSION; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SMALL INDUSTRIES; SMALL SATELLITE MISSION; SMALL SATELLITES; SPACE MISSIONS; SPACE-BORNE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; EARTH (PLANET); KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OBSERVATORIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

SATELLITES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CHANGE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION;

EID: 78149498737     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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