CESAR Mission - Cooperation Espanola-Argentina

This paper describes the CESAR Mission, an Earth Observation Satellite Miss ion developed in cooperation between INTA (Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Ae roespacial) from Spain and CONAE (Comision Nacional de Actividades Espacial es) from Argentina. The Mission, with a proposed launch date of the corresp onding CESAR satellite circa 2002 / 2003, consists in the design, construct ion, launch and operation of a small satellite, less than 500 Kg, and the u pdate of the existing Ground Segment Capabilities in Spain and Argentina to receive and process the CESAR generated data. The primary objectives will be: Cartography, Natural Resources and Geophysics, with a Satellite Payload composed of a Panchromatic Camera with 5 meters geometric resolution and 1 0 bits radiometric resolution, for cartography and topography studies; a Mu ltispectral Camera with 6 bands, 34 meters geometric resolution and 10 bits radiometric resolution, for thematic studies; and Panchromatic High Sensib ility Camera with 1Km geometric resolution and a Spectrometer, for geophysi cs studies, (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.