CONS 127 Lecture 10: CONS 127 - Recieving Stations Part 2 Feb 27 2018

• School: UBC
• Department: Natural Resources Conservation
• Course: CONS 127
• Professor: Nicholas Coops

Document Summary

Remember that these orbits go over the poles! Close elliptical orbit: we have a lot of satellites in this orbit. Remember this is the one that goes over the poles and the orbit is mostly used for our remote sensing. If you have a small swath, it will take the satelllite a longer time to cover the world because the pixel is so small. If you are wrapping the globe with thin ribbon, it will take a longer time to cover the globe. But, if you are wrapping the globe with a fat ribbon, it will take much shorter time to cover the entire globe. Which satellite comes over vancouver quicker: satellite with a pixel of 1m by 1 m, satellite with a pixel of 1km by 1km. This orbit is under the family branch of close-elliptical and polar orbit. These terms are all the same thing **