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Company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) was founded in 1969. It is the global corporation providing services to the state and commercial organizations worldwide in the field of remote sensing of Earth and telecommunication and also conducting developments in the field of space robotics, the pilotless systems and other advanced technologies. At the beginning of 2017 it became known of absorption of other player of the world industry of remote sensing by MDA company – the American DigitalGlobe.
2017: Agreement with MDA on network of direct acceptance of radar data RADARSAT-2
SCANEX and Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) signed in June, 2017 the agreement on deployment in the territory of Russia of a ground-based system for processing and production of products on the basis of the data obtained from the radar RADARSAT-2 satellite.
The unrolled system will allow SCANEX to support direct data reception in four centers located in Moscow, Irkutsk, Magadan and Megion with the centralized processing and production in Moscow. It will provide a complete covering with radar pictures of all territory of Russia, including the Seas Arctic Ocean. The delivery of data which is based on application of cloud computing will be performed in the mode close to real time.