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CBERS-4 (China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite - 4, also known as ZY-01-4 or ZY-1 FM4) is a joint Brazil-China land-resource and environmental monitoring satellite launched on 2014-12-07.^[1]^[2] It flies a sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 778 km altitude with a 10:30 local solar time.^[3] The satellite carries five instruments: MUXCAM, PANMUX, WFI-2, IRMSS-2, and a Data Collection System (DCS).^[2] CEOS records CBERS-4 as operational extended with EOL December 2025, while WMO OSCAR recorded it as operational with EOL at least 2026 as of a 2026 update.^[2]^[3] Applications include land-cover change monitoring, deforestation tracking, inland water mapping, and agricultural land analysis; the Brazil Data Cube ingests CBERS-4 imagery as input data for national-scale time-series analysis.^[4] INPE operates the mission; CRESDA is the Chinese co-lead agency.^[2]

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current status	Extended operations
operator	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
launch vehicle	Casc Long March 4b
Launched	2014-12-07
orbit type	Sun-synchronous orbit, 778 km altitude, 10:30 local solar time
swath km	866
revisit days	5
tasking supported	No
current geographic priority	Brazil, China, and global land-resource and environmental monitoring
claim status	Unclaimed

Supply chain position

carries instrument CBERS-4 Data Collection System

carries instrument CBERS-4 Multispectral Camera

carries instrument CBERS-4 Panchromatic and Multispectral Imager

carries instrument CBERS-4 Wide Field Imager 2

carries instrument CBERS-4 Infrared Multispectral Scanner 2

operated by Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais

launched on Casc Long March 4b

related to Land cover change

related to Deforestation

related to Inland water

related to Crop-type mapping

Optical time-series change detection → demonstrated CBERS-4 Multispectral Camera

Vegetation index mapping → demonstrated CBERS-4 Multispectral Camera

Multispectral optical imaging → demonstrated CBERS-4 Multispectral Camera

Optical time-series change detection → demonstrated CBERS-4 Panchromatic and Multispectral Imager

Vegetation index mapping → demonstrated CBERS-4 Panchromatic and Multispectral Imager

Multispectral optical imaging → demonstrated CBERS-4 Panchromatic and Multispectral Imager

Optical time-series change detection → demonstrated CBERS-4 Wide Field Imager 2

Vegetation index mapping → demonstrated CBERS-4 Wide Field Imager 2

Multispectral optical imaging → demonstrated CBERS-4 Wide Field Imager 2

Land-surface temperature - emissivity retrieval → demonstrated CBERS-4 Infrared Multispectral Scanner 2

Multispectral optical imaging → demonstrated CBERS-4 Infrared Multispectral Scanner 2

Thermal infrared imaging → demonstrated CBERS-4 Infrared Multispectral Scanner 2

Sources

[1]UN-SPIDER news: China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite launchedagency doc2026-06-14
[2]CEOS MIM mission summary: CBERS-4community2026-06-14
[3]WMO OSCAR satellite record: CBERS-4community2026-06-14
[4]Brazil Data Cube input data: CBERS-4agency doc2026-06-14

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@misc{eoatlas:missions:cbers-4,
  title = {CBERS-4},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/cbers-4}
}