Comments on: China, Brazil partner to provide free remote sensing data for Africa

By: Jan Cees Venema

Jan Cees Venema — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:52:24 +0000

Here you’ll find the instructions to download the CBERS data: http://www.unsdi.nl/news/newsarchive/03510d9b820c45203.html

By: Jan Cees Venema

Jan Cees Venema — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:37:30 +0000

Great idea. Make sure the data will be distributed freely to the end-user. Disclose the (meta)data via a standardized Spatial Data Infrastucture (SDI) tool like GeoNetwork opensource, allowing easy access to the data and interoperability with other geo-information suppliers….

By: Richard Ingwe

Richard Ingwe — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:38:37 +0000

Dear colleagues,
Irrespective of the experience and prediction that climate change impacts are/will hit(ting) Africa the hardest, the belaboured and beleguered poor continent (of enormous potential) has remained the highest payer for remotely rensed imagery. This makes the China-Brazil offer of free imagery one of the most considerate and climate change-friendliest moves that I’ve heard about so far. We, in CRADLE (the Centre for Research and Action on Developing Locales, regions and the Environment) cannot wait for this promise to be fulfilled. We hereby ask for further information on how to access the offered imagery for leveraging our research programmes. Kind regards,
Richard INGWE

By: WWC

WWC — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:03:54 +0000

CBERS-2B camera resolution is 2.7m/px, but it has also a few different instruments with lower res
http://www.cbers.inpe.br/en/programas/cbers1-2_cameras.htm

By: Leonard M. Mutungi

Leonard M. Mutungi — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:23:41 +0000

Good idea, Africa needs as much support as possible to get to the level where it can be able to have its own Satellite imagery. This will help in planning our bad infrastructure, our cities etc. One question though, what is the resolution for this satellite image?