China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite - 1

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, China Center for Resources Satellite Data and Application
October, 1999 to October, 2003

is a cooperative program between CAST (Chinese Academy of Space Technology) of the People's Republic of China, and INPE (Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais) of Brazil (government agreement of both countries for the development and operation of two satellites). The program was signed in July 1988 to establish a complete remote sensing system (space and ground segment) to supply both countries with multispectral remotely sensed imagery. - Prior to the international cooperative program of CBERS, there existed already a Chinese program, referred to as or simply, meaning in Chinese. The satellite ZY-1 FM1 (Zi Yuan-1 Flight Model 1) of this 1 generation program came to be known as CBERS-1.

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http://www.cbers.inpe.br/en/programas/cbers1-2.htm

Instrument	Datasets
High Resolution CCD Camera	0
Data Collecting System Transponder	0
Infrared Multispectral Scanner	0
Wide Field Imager	0

Also known as :

• missionID 265 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission CBERS-1 (ceos lexicon)
• resource CBERS-1 (dbpedia lexicon)