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Space agency boosts earth observation, launches new satellite image mosaic of South Africa
July 8, 2013 Editor 0
The South African National Space Agency (Sansa) has increased its Earth observation (EO) budget this year to R70-million. “This is a 13% increase on last year’s expenditure,” reports Sansa CEO Dr Sandile Malinga. “The biggest [part of this] spend goes to data acquisition – about R30-million, for imagery from [French EO satellite] Spot and [US EO satellite] Landsat and other global satellites. And then to improve our systems and turnaround times, so as to improve our service to our customers.”
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