{"id":84724,"date":"2017-01-11T20:25:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T01:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=84724"},"modified":"2017-01-29T03:27:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T08:27:35","slug":"china-receives-imagery-from-high-resolution-remote-sensing-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/11\/china-receives-imagery-from-high-resolution-remote-sensing-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"China receives imagery from high-resolution remote sensing satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING \u2013China has received images from a pair of 0.5-meter high-resolution remote sensing satellites launched in late December last year, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tourists were seen visiting the Potala Palace in Tibet Autonomous Region in the captured images.<\/p>\n<p>The satellites, SuperView-1 01\/02, on the back of a Long March 2D rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province .<\/p>\n<p>The two are operating at an altitude of 500 kilometers, with a panchromatic resolution of 0.5 meters and multispectral resolution of two meters, said Zhang Xiaomin, vice general manager of the Dongfanghong Satellite Co., Ltd under the CASC.<\/p>\n<p>The China Siwei Surveying and Mapping Technology Co. Ltd, which is also under the CASC, is in charge of commercial operation of the satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Xu Wen, general manager of China Siwei, said the satellites will provide services in a number of fields from environmental monitoring to disaster mitigation.<\/p>\n<p>In China, there is a huge demand on remote sensing data, which, until now, came from foreign sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING \u2013China has received images from a pair of 0.5-meter high-resolution remote sensing satellites launched in late December last year, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13444,13445],"class_list":["post-84724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-china-aerospace-science-and-technology-corporation","tag-remote-sensing-satellites","mauthors-xinhua-news-agency-via-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}