Nigerian Satellite Systems, and her Remote Sensing Data S. O. Mohammed, PhD (Director-General/Chief Executive) National Space Research & Development Agency (NASRDA) A Presentation at the 2010 International Commercial Remote sensing Symposium Washington DC, USA 3 5 March 2010 NigeriaSat-1 NigeriaSat-2 Abuja-NigeriaSat-1 NASRDA, 2010
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GOAL: DEVELOP AND PROMOTE THE USE OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY AS A KEY DRIVER FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES: 1. DEVELOP AND DEPLOY HIGH TECHNOLOGIES IN SPACE SYSTEMS FOR APPLICATION IN COMMUNICATION, EARTH OBSERVATION, OBSERVATORY AND SPACE TRANSPORTATION 2. APPLY THE HIGH TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT, RESOURCE & ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INCLUDING APPLICATIONS IN HYDROLOGY, AGRICULTURE, WATER RESOURCES, EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE DELIVERY, SECURITY, ETC 3. PURSUE THE DEVELOPMENT AND DOMESTICATION OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS PRODUCTS TOWARDS ENHANCING JOB AND WEALTH CREATION 4. DEVELOP INFRASTRUCTURE FOR GEOSPATIAL DATA ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT NASRDA, 2009
NASRDA s Satellites NigeriaSat-1 NIGCOMSat--1 Launched on the 27th of Sept, 2003 Microsatllite for earth observations Design lifespan - 5 years Mass 100kg Imaging payload 32m GSD in three bands (red, green, NIR) Swath width - 600km x 600km Revisit period -3-5 days A Geostationary Satellite Over 5 Tons Wet Mass Carrying 40 Hybrid transponders (28 active) in Ku, Ka, C and L-bands Coverage: Africa, Middle East, and Europe (Parts of) Life Span 15 years - launched on the 14th May 2007
NIGERIASAT-2 NASRDA s Satellites NigeriaSat-2 is an Earth-Observation Satellite 2.5m panchromatic (very high resolution) 5m Multi spectral (High resolution) NIR,RED,GREEN &BLUE. 32m Multi spectral (medium resolution) NIR,RED,GREEN&BLUE 7.2m Dish Design life span 7years To be launched in 2010 NIGERIASAT-X
Landsat TM & Nigeriasat-1 Imageries of Lagos, Nigeria Lagos 1994 (Landsat TM) Lagos 2003 (NigeriaSat-1)
Capturing Index [600km X 250km] NASRDA, 2010
NASRDA, 2010 Cataloguing Index [80km X 80km]
NASRDA s Ground Station
NASRDA s Satellite Imageries Abuja NigeriaSat-1 Lagos
NASRDA s Satellite Imageries Abuja Lagos NigeriaSat--2 Beijing -1 4m pan - Tehran
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New Orleans from NigeriaSat-1 showing the effect of Hurricane Katrina Mississippi Delta and New Orleans as well as coastal regions eastwards to Gulfport, Biloxi and beyond. USA NigeriaSat-1, 2 nd Sept 2005
NigeriaSat-1 Data Utilisation NIGERIASAT-1 SPACE APPLICATIONS NASRDA, 2010
COMMERCIALISATION NigeriaSat-1 Local Outfit GeoApps Solutions Ltd. Total Scenes to Date = 3,757 Scenes Data Requests Government 2,037 requests Private 1,225 requests Usage of satellite images are mainly from other satellites imagery providers which we do assist to procure. Nigeriasat-2 will fill in the Gaps for new projects Greater Lagos Mapping Land Reform NASRDA, 2009
COMMERCIALISATION NigeriaSat-1 International Marketing Outfit DMCII Ltd., UK Projects Monitoring of farm land within France Australia Mapping of the entire country Vietnam Mapping of its coastal areas South America Mapping part of (Amazon Campaign) Mapping of the EU States (38 Countries) Tsunami Disaster and NigeriaSat-1 Contribution Acquired over 20 images each of 300km X 150km of the Asian Tsunami disaster delivered to RESPOND NASRDA, 2009
25 YEAR ROADMAP FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN NIGERIA Launch of Nigeria Sat 1 2003 Training of Engineers and Scientists to Build Sat 2006 Launch of Nigeria Sat 2 2010 Launch of Nigeria Sat X 2010 Training of Nigeria Astronaunts 2015 Development of SAR 2015 Building of Made in Nigeria Sat 2018 Development of Launch Capabilities 2025 Development of Spinoff and Allied Industries 2026 Large Scale Commericialization - 2028 NASRDA, 2009
CONCLUSION Space Technology is dynamic and thus the Nigerian Space Programme is flexible and changes with the trend of Technological Advancement. In Spite of the Global Recession, Government in Nigeria has continued to fund the Space Programme for the Social Economic Development of the Country. So far the Nigerian Space Programme has been a Success Story. NASRDA, 2009
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