Meet RADARSAT users
The data from our satellites helps improve the lives of Canadians across the country in a number of areas. Here are just a few examples of how RADARSAT data is used by a variety of people.
Agriculture
- Who: Tony Balkwill
- Occupation: Farmer and farming consultant
- Location: Southern Ontario
- In his own words: "Used properly, satellite data can be a game changer."
- Read his full story - Tony Balkwin
Learn more about the use of RADARSAT data in agriculture
- Agriculture in the satellite age
- Supporting Canadian universities to improve sustainable agriculture
Environment, ecosystems and climate change
- Monitoring our forests from space
- Monitoring and protecting our ecosystems from space
- Taking action on climate change
- Making space datasets accessible to tackle climate change (and other) challenges
- Can space technology help reduce chronic stress experienced by whales?
- Wildfire burn scars mapped by satellites
- A new water management program using RADARSAT-2
Health
Maritime surveillance
- Who: Michael Stokes
- Occupation: Ship captain
- Location: Northern Quebec and Arctic
- In his own words: "RADARSAT data is essential to my work."
- Read his full story - Michael Stokes
Learn more about the use of RADARSAT data in maritime surveillance
The Arctic and ice
- Who: Brian Koonoo
- Occupation: Resource Management Officer, Parks Canada
- Location: Pond Inlet, Nunavut
- In his own words: "RADARSAT data is a big help to those of us who live in northern communities."
- Read his full story - Brian Koonoo
Learn more about the use of RADARSAT data in the Arctic and other ice-covered areas
- Space serving the Arctic and the Great Canadian North
- RADARSAT-2 helps create permanent road link to Arctic Ocean
- Mobile phone application using RADARSAT-2 imagery to make communities safer
- Data from Earth observation satellites could help make travel on lake ice safer
- Canadian satellite imagery helps measure glaciers' ice loss
- A SOAR Success: Learning about glaciers from space!
- Data Compendium: 20 years of Radar Images
Disaster management
- Who: Warrant Officer Marc Pouliot
- Occupation: Chief of Geomatics (Quebec), Canadian Armed Forces
- Location: Quebec
- In his own words: "Satellite data is essential––critical––in our role as first responders."
- Read his full story - Marc Pouliot
Learn more about the use of RADARSAT data in disaster management
- Satellites and satellite-based systems: Indispensable tools to keep us safe
- Guiding rescue efforts from space
- Detecting landslide risks on a wide scale
- The International Charter "Space and Major Disasters" presented with prestigious award