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CSIS Report Notes Chinese ‘Commercial’ Remote Sensing Leads in Some Areas

CSIS Report Notes Chinese ‘Commercial’ Remote Sensing Leads in Some Areas
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A new Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) commercial satellite remote sensing "Olympics" report notes Chinese leads in electro-optical (EO), synthetic aperture radar (SAR) C-band, and long-wave infrared (LWIR) imagery. "The study is super important because what it does is present an incontrovertible, simple picture of the situation that exists, and it demonstrates, in the most straightforward fashion, the reality of the moment, the challenge for national security, the opportunity for advance and the work still to be done,"…

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