LAPAN-IPB LISat satellite will be launched in the mid of 2016
Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) and the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space of Indonesia (LAPAN) organized socializing satellite launching program of LAPAN-A3 / LAPAN-IPB Satellite (LISat) and reports of four months operating of LAPAN-A2 / LAPAN-ORARI. This activity took place on Monday, 25 April 2016 at the Pusat Teknologi Satelit LAPAN (Centre for Satellite Technology Space agency), Jl. Cagak Satelite KM 04 Rancabungur, Bogor, West Java.
LAPAN-IPB is a satellite that weighs 115 kilograms. This satellite carries an experimental remote sensing missions for monitoring of food resources. The LAPAN-IPB Satellite called “LISat” is designed and developed by LAPAN, and IPB will be responsible for developing algorithm and datasets application, in order to support the food security and environmental monitoring program. The LISat satellite will be launched in the mid of 2016 with PSLV Rocket in Sriharikota, India. Moreover, LAPAN-IPB collaboration is also intended to enhance the role of environmental satellite data such as NOAA, MODIS, LANDSAT and others, in order to more effectively support the research in agricultural, forestry, climate and marine resources.
In this activity, LAPAN explained on-IPB satellite launching preparations, the results of pre-launching tests, operation and use of the data preparation satellites. The event was attended by the Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education (Menristekdikti) RI, the Direktor of LAPAN, Rector of IPB, and the Director of the Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI – Indonesian Institute of Sciences).
The satellite payload is a four-band push broom multi-spectral imaging camera of four bands of multispectral imagerLAPAN-A3/IPB will have the main mission as an imager satellite with 4 bands multi spectral imager using optical line scan camera to monitor the land cover, cultivated area and sea. Another mission is for shipping monitoring using Automatics Identification System (AIS).
LAPAN-A3 / Satellite IPB developed in cooperation LAPAN and IPB to improve the knowledge, skills, designing and building the satellite by the Indonesian people so that we master this technology, both for experimental purposes and operational. Space agency responsible for the design, development, launch, until the reception of satellite data. IPB is responsible for algorithm development, utilization, and application of satellite data for national food security and environmental monitoring.
Satellite development is also an effort to realize the economic development of competitive advantage. LAPAN-A3 / Satellite IPB will be utilized for the beneficial of agriculture, forestry, climate change, and marine resources, in terms of food security. This will be associated with the estimation of agricultural land and marine resource productivity as well as the system of Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of the REDD program (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation). Satellite technology will support the accuracy of the data in the future national planning of planting, especially in improving food security. This course will assist the government in determining the various policies related to food, for example related to import rice. (Wied)
