Éric Laliberté

Protecting Canadian sovereignty, security and safety, Canadian satellites monitor the Earth round the clock, peering through cloud cover, darkness, fog and smoke. Research instruments in orbit probe everything from the complexities of the atmosphere to the Earth's ionosphere – where the atmosphere ends and space begins.

Meanwhile space systems have become crucial to daily essential services, from banking to the Internet to telephony. Weather forecasting and environmental monitoring, natural disaster warning and response, air traffic control and seagoing navigation, border security, military surveillance and crop management – all of these depend on sophisticated space technologies.

Scheduled for launch in 2018, the RADARSAT Constellation Mission is a fleet of three sophisticated remote-sensing satellites that will monitor all of Canada's land and ocean territories and 95 per cent of the world's surface. The configuration builds on the success of Canada's previous RADARSAT missions, launched in 1995 and 2007, which have been invaluable in everything from oceanography to forestry, marine surveillance to humanitarian relief efforts. The Constellation Mission will extend those capacities, aiding in ship identification, ice monitoring, oil spill detection and forest firefighting. It will be of particular value in monitoring the Northwest Passage, crucial to safety, security and sovereignty in Canada's North.

Attend this keynote session from one of the most senior leaders in Canada’s Space community to understand:

● The role, organisation and mission of Canada’s Space Agency so you can easily identify current leadership and learn about the objectives and priorities for the organisation
● How Space systems are evolving to offer more predictive powers to nations and what this means for the geospatial intelligence community
● The impact of the most recent RADARSAT mission on asset tracking, event prediction and avoiding crises in North America