TAIYUAN, Nov 4 (NNN-XINHUA) – China on Sunday, launched a new Earth observation satellite, Gaofen-7, which will play an important role in land surveying and mapping, urban and rural construction and statistical investigation, according to China National Space Administration (CNSA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Gaofen-7, launched on a Long March-4B rocket, at 11:22 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China’s Shanxi Province, is China’s first civil-use optical transmission three-dimensional surveying and mapping satellite that reaches the sub-metre level, CNSA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The satellite and carrier rocket were developed by China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) and the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, under China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The users of the Gaofen-7 satellite will be mainly from the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the National Bureau of Statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Via the same carrier rocket, three other commercial and scientific experiment satellites, including one developed for Sudan, were also sent into space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The development of the Gaofen-7 achieved a breakthrough in sub-metre level 3D mapping camera technology, meeting the highest mapping accuracy requirement, among the Gaofen series Earth observation satellites, CNSA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It can obtain high-resolution optical 3D observation data and high-precision laser altimetry data and can realise 1:10,000 scale satellite 3D mapping for civil use in China, according to CNSA.– NNN-XINHUA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TAIYUAN, Nov 4 (NNN-XINHUA) – China on Sunday, launched a new Earth observation satellite, Gaofen-7, which will play an important role in land surveying and mapping, urban and rural construction and statistical investigation, according to China National Space Administration (CNSA). The Gaofen-7, launched on a Long March-4B rocket, at 11:22 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48840"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}