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CBERS-4A
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CBERS-4A (China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite - 4A, also known as ZY-01-4A) is a joint Brazil-China land-resource imaging satellite launched on 2019-12-20.[1] It flies a sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 629 km with a 10:30 local solar time and a 5-day revisit.[1] The satellite carries three imaging instruments: the Wide Panchromatic and Multispectral (WPM) camera, the Medium Resolution Multispectral (MUX) camera, and the Wide Field Imager (WFI) with a 684 km swath, plus a Data Collection System (DCS).[2] CEOS records CBERS-4A as operational extended; INPE operates the mission and CRESDA is the Chinese co-lead agency.[1] Applications include land-cover mapping, vegetation monitoring, and time-series change detection; the Brazil Data Cube ingests CBERS-4A imagery as input data for national-scale time-series analysis.[2]
All fields
| current status | extended |
| operator | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais |
| launch vehicle | casc-long-march-4b |
| Launched | 2019-12-20 |
| planned decommission | 2025-12-31 |
| orbit type | Sun-synchronous orbit, approximately 629 km altitude, 10:30 local solar time |
| swath km | 684 |
| revisit days | 5 |
| tasking supported | false |
| current geographic priority | Brazil, China, and global land-resource imaging |
| Last updated | 2026-06-14 |
| claim status | agency-sourced |
Compositional position
- [1]CEOS MIM mission summary: CBERS-4Acommunity2026-06-14
- [2]Brazil Data Cube input data: CBERS-4Aagency doc2026-06-14