Today I'm just talking about one type of satellite, which is a satellite that's gathering regular frequency signals from ships.
In truth, the Canadian Space Agency long-term space plan that I alluded to earlier actually talks about a series of microsatellite constellations that have tremendous functionality. The first one we're talking about is maritime surveillance. Even on this satellite, we have a low data rate transponder, which can pick little messages up around the world to do water monitoring, or monitor forest fires, or gather information that is used around the world.
Following off from that are optical spacecraft that map the earth. We're in dialogue with some folks in Alberta about using that as a planning tool when people are doing oil development and exploration, building roads and tailing ponds using satellite data. There are ways of using radio occultation to get much better weather-predictive tools using microsatellites. Indeed there's a thing called a microbolometer that can go on the spacecraft, and it looks down and does infrared monitoring and can gather bits of information. COM DEV has built satellite equipment like that for other people before. In fact, COM DEV's MOPITT satellite is an instrument that is flying today on a U.S. spacecraft that for years has been the premier satellite for gathering information about what's happening with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. That's using an instrument that's designed and built in Canada.