RADARSAT-2 is an Earth observation satellite scheduled for launch in 2005 by the Canadian Space Agency, co-funded by MacDonald Dettwiler . It has a synthetic aperture radar with multiple polarization modes. Its highest resolution will be 3m with 100m positional accuracy.
RADARSAT-2 is a follow-on to RADARSAT-1. It will have the same orbit, (798 km altitude sun-synchronous with 6 PM ascending node and 6 AM descending node). It is intended to fill a wide variety of roles, including agricultural crop monitoring, marine surveillance for ship and pollution detection, terrestrial defence surveillance and target identification, geological mapping, land use mapping, wetlands mapping, topographic mapping, sea ice mapping, iceberg detection, and ship routing.