الأحد، 24 يناير 2016

New Satellite to Upgrade Remote Sensing Capability - Rawan For Media Artistic and Production

New Satellite to Upgrade Remote Sensing Capability - Rawan For Media Artistic and Production



The
International Conference on Remote Sensing concluded in Riyadh on
Wednesday and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
(KACST), which sponsored the event, announced plans to launch a new
satellite in cooperation with China which will upgrade its remote
sensing facilities and services in the Kingdom.

Badr
Al-Swaidan from the Institute of Space and Aviation Research of KACST
said the city had completed preparation for the components of the Saudi
satellite (Saudi SAT 5B) which is locally made.
It will be launched by the Chinese space rocket (Long March 2D) to support remote sensing services in the Kingdom.

The
project is within the framework of cooperation between the Kingdom and
China in scientific fields which also includes the establishment of a
genetic studies project.

He
pointed out that KACST would work in cooperation with the Chinese
navigation satellite on scientific studies to develop reception systems
and the use of the Chinese navigation satellite system (similar to
BeiDou Satellite Navigation System) and GPS.

The systems will work efficiently in the Kingdom because of joint
research which includes system monitoring and performance evaluation
systems and integration.

According
to an official from the organizing committee of the International
Conference on Remote Sensing, there were more than 800 local and
international delegates from different parts of the world.

“The
conference, with a concurrent exhibition, was held under the patronage
of the Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and was a big attraction
for those interested in space technology,” he said.

The
three-day event was co-sponsored by Saudi Aramco and other companies in
the country. More than 30 national and global companies took part in
the exhibition which ran concurrently with the three-day conference.

During the four-day conference, some 44 scientific papers were presented by local and international delegates.

A
number of Saudi youths who have graduated in space technology in
various Saudi universities displayed their achievements in various
pavilions at the exhibition.

Anas
Khalil Dahlawi from Falconviz, a company displaying services such as
aerial mapping and aerial videography at the exhibition told Arab News
that they had a drone mini-plane manufactured locally to take 3D aerial
surveying.


By Arab News, 16 hours 11 minutes ago

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