Acquisition plans of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission

The RADARSAT Constellation is the evolution of the RADARSAT Program with the objective of ensuring data continuity, improved operational use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and improved system reliability. The three-satellite configuration provides daily revisits of Canada's vast territory and maritime approaches, as well as daily access to 90% of the world's surface.

RCM is tasked solely by the Government of Canada, to acquire data, first and foremost in support of Government of Canada services and needs. RCM data and services contributes to ensuring the safety and security of Canadians; monitoring and protecting the environment; monitoring of climate change; managing Canada’s natural resources; and stimulating innovation, research and economic development.

In addition to these core user areas, there are expected to be a wide range of ad hoc uses of RADARSAT Constellation data in many different applications within the public and private sectors, both in Canada and internationally.

The current data set reflects the acquisition plans that are designed to meet the RCM SAR imaging demands of the Government of Canada. These are being made available publicly in advance of the acquisitions. To meet the data needs of the Government of Canada, acquisitions may be changed without notice.

After their acquisition and processing, the RCM image products listed in the current data set, will be delivered to the Earth Observation Data Management System - EODMS (https://www.eodms-sgdot.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/index-en.html) portal of Natural Resources Canada. Users can register to the EODMS portal as public users to retrieve the RCM image products. For those requiring a greater access to RCM imagery consisting of product types or spatial resolutions not available to public users: you may apply to upgrade your public account to an ‘RCM external vetted entity’ EODMS user type account.

For more information on this process, please contact the Canadian Space Agency using the information available at the following link : https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat/access-to-data/how-to-become-a-user.asp

Publication frequency :

I. Future acquisition plans are published every two weeks for a two-week window that starts two weeks from the publication date.

As an example, acquisition plan published on April 1st covers acquisitions from April 14 to 27. The next plan is published on April 14th and covers from April 28 to May 11.

II. Past acquisitions plans are published monthly and covers a period of one month from the first to the last day

As an example, acquisition plan published on April 1st covers acquisition made between the March 1 and March 31. The next plan covers the month of April.

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Date ( RI_366 )
2019-09-01
Date ( RI_367 )
2021-09
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Canadian Space Agency - ( )
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
monthly; mensuel RI_536
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • Imagery
  • RCM
  • RADARSAT
  • Maritime surveillance
  • Disaster management
  • Ecosystem monitoring
  • Change detection
  • Vessel detection
  • Oil spill monitoring
  • Ice monitoring
  • Synthetic aperture radar
  • Polarization
  • Scattering
  • Sensor
  • Wavelenght
  • X-band
  • S-band
  • C-band
  • Interferometry
  • Remote sensing
  • Earth Observation
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Satellites
  • Access to information
  • Agriculture
  • Geographic data
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609
Other constraints
The ESRI REST and WMS web services use the Canada Atlas Lambert projection (EPSG: 3978) for compatibility purposes with the map viewer, while all the downloadable resources use the World Geodetic System 1984 projection (EPSG: 4326).
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Metadata language
eng; CAN
Metadata language
fra
Character set
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Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
2021-09-15
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  • SHP ( N/A )

  • FGDB/GDB ( 10 )

  • MXD ( 10.7.1 )

  • ESRI REST ( 10.7.1 )

  • WMS ( 1.3.0 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector, Federal Geospatial Platform - ( )
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Past month and planned acquisitions: ESRI File Geodatabase ( HTTPS )

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OnLine resource
Past month and planned acquisitions: OGC WMS Web Service (EPSG:3978) ( HTTPS )

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OnLine resource
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OnLine resource
RADARSAT Constellation Mission ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

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OnLine resource
Planned acquisitions: Comma-separated values ( HTTPS )

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OnLine resource
Past month acquisitions: Google Earth file ( HTTPS )

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OnLine resource
Planned acquisitions: Google Earth file ( HTTPS )

Dataset;KML;eng,fra

OnLine resource
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OnLine resource
Planned acquisitions: ESRI Shapefile ( HTTPS )

Dataset;SHP;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Archive folder of past acquisitions: Comma-separated values ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Archive folder of past acquisitions: Google Earth file ( HTTPS )

Dataset;KML;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Archive folder of past acquisitions: ESRI Shapefile ( HTTPS )

Dataset;SHP;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Archive folder of past acquisitions: ESRI File Geodatabase ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng,fra

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RCM Publication of Acquisition Plans, Distribution Information Document: English PDF ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

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RCM Publication of Acquisition Plans, Distribution Information Document: French PDF ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

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RCM Publication of Acquisition Plans, Product Specification: English PDF ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
RCM Publication of Acquisition Plans, Product Specification: French PDF ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
RCM Publication of Acquisition Plans, Image Product Format Definition: English PDF ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
RCM Publication of Acquisition Plans, Image Product Format Definition: French PDF ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
RCM Publication of Acquisition Plans, Multi-Look Complex (MLC) Product Additional Information: English PDF ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
RCM Publication of Acquisition Plans, Multi-Look Complex (MLC) Product Additional Information: French PDF ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
RCM Publication of Acquisition Plans, RCM Compact-Pol Calibration Status Update – 2022-05-12: English PDF ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
RCM Publication of Acquisition Plans, RCM Compact-Pol Calibration Status Update – 2022-05-12: French PDF ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
Past and planned acquisitions: ESRI ArcMap project file ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;MXD;eng

OnLine resource
Past and planned acquisitions: ESRI ArcMap project file ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;MXD;fra

OnLine resource
RADARSAT Constellation Mission ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

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Hierarchy level
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Date stamp
2024-10-09T09:04:07
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector, Federal Geospatial Platform - ( )
 
 

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