RADARSAT-2

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RADARSAT-2 is a Canadian Earth observation satellite equipped with advanced synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology used for environmental monitoring, resource management, and surveillance.

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Label Occurrences
RADARSAT-2 canonical 9

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Earth observation satellite
synthetic aperture radar satellite
altitude approximately 798 km
application agriculture monitoring
defence and security
disaster management
environmental monitoring
forestry monitoring
land use mapping
maritime surveillance
oil spill detection
resource management
sea ice monitoring
capability all-weather imaging
day-and-night imaging
high-resolution SAR imaging
cooperatingAgency Canadian Space Agency
countryOfOrigin Canada
dataPolicy commercial data distribution
dataType radar imagery
imagingModes ScanSAR mode
Spotlight mode
Stripmap mode
inclination 98.6 degrees
launchDate 2007-12-14
launchSite Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome
surface form: Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31/6
launchVehicle Soyuz rocket
surface form: Soyuz-FG/Fregat
manufacturer MDA
maximumResolution approximately 3 m
missionType Earth observation
remote sensing
operator Canadian Space Agency
MDA
orbitalPeriod approximately 100 minutes
orbitRegime low Earth orbit
surface form: Low Earth orbit
orbitType Sun-synchronous orbit
owner MDA
polarizationModes dual polarization
quad polarization
single polarization
powerSource solar panels
predecessor RADARSAT-1
primaryInstrument C-band synthetic aperture radar
program RADARSAT program
radarBand C-band
repeatCycle 24 days
status operational
successor RADARSAT Constellation Mission
swathWidthRange 20 to 500 km

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: RADARSAT-2
Description of subject: RADARSAT-2 is a Canadian Earth observation satellite equipped with advanced synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology used for environmental monitoring, resource management, and surveillance.

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Canadian Space Agency operates RADARSAT-2
CSA notableWork RADARSAT-2
subject surface form: Canadian Space Agency
ASC notableProject RADARSAT-2
RCM predecessor RADARSAT-2
MDA notableWork RADARSAT-2
RADARSAT-1 successor RADARSAT-2
RADARSAT program hasComponent RADARSAT-2