MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has been selected to build a satellite ground station and perform training services for Malaysia’s national remote sensing agency.
The company will also supply information for the RADARSAT-2 satellite in preparation for the spacecraft’s operation scheduled in 2016, MDA said Tuesday.
The ground station is designed to process RADARSAT-2 data for three years for flood monitoring, maritime and agricultural, natural resource management and mapping applications.