# Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
*research-institute . companies*

Chinese Academy of Sciences institute identified in public Gaofen-3 reporting as developer of the Gaofen-3 SAR payload.

## Specifications
- **country**: China
- **website**: https://english.ie.cas.cn/
- **operator domains**: ["ie.cas.cn"]
- **entity type**: company
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-26
- **verified by**: community
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **attributes**: {"kind":"research-institute","country":"China","website":"https://english.ie.cas.cn/","operator_domains":"[\"ie.cas.cn\"]","description":"Chinese Academy of Sciences institute identified in public Gaofen-3 reporting as developer of the Gaofen-3 SAR payload."}
- **relevance**: ancillary

## Editorial
Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences is a Chinese research institute and historical synthetic-aperture-radar payload developer associated with the Gaofen-3 C-band full-polarization SAR payload. Its relevant Earth-observation heritage is delivered payload-development work rather than commercial satellite operations or imagery sales. For practitioners, IECAS is most useful as a payload-development identity tied to Gaofen-3 SAR capability and Chinese SAR instrument heritage.[^journal-radars-gf3]

## Sources
- [journal-radars-gf3] | The Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Images of Gaofen-3 | https://radars.ac.cn/news/JournalNews/2fe7580e-5aaa-42b1-ae01-ecd800e0069f_en.htm | tier=peer-reviewed | accessed=2026-06-26 | published=2020-12-01

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