[SatNews] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA; TSX:MDA) will be providing RADARSAT-2 information to the Netherlands Space Office (NSO) over the next five years according to a $3.3 million (Canadian) contract amendment.

Artistic rendition of RADARSAT-2.

Image courtesy of MDA.

The RADARSAT-2 information will be used to provide Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) information for government users, as well as scientific and research purposes through the NSO Satellite Data Portal, a portal that enables the government of The Netherlands to disseminate satellite imagery to Dutch entities.

The RADARSAT-2 satellite is capable of collecting images through all weather conditions, 24 hours a day. It is able to repeatedly image the same location on Earth over time, from the same orbital position, and generate data that is processed using InSAR techniques to measure the movement of ground features to millimeters-level accuracy.

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