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lopment (MOFAD), has signed a 12-month
contract valued at between 1 and 2 million
Canadian dollars with exactEarth. Services
provided will include AIS satellite data servi-
ces and a small vessel tracking solution, the-
reby providing Ghana with the technology Moreover, exactEarth has put a Canadian
to monitor its coastlines and detect illegal government microsatellite called M3MSat
fishing activities in its national waters. (Maritime Monitoring and Messaging Mi-
crosatellite) into orbit in its constellation.
M3MSat aims to improve M3M carries a high performance AIS sa-

tellite load, and exactEarth, along with the
the detection of vessels by satellite
Canadian government, has the exclusive
and to increase the ratios of rights to commercialise the AIS data ge-
nerated by this satellite. This important
information updates for our asset in the global satellite constellation
will improve the satellite detection of ves-
customers worldwide sels and increase information update ra- AB OUT HISDE S AT

tios for our global customers.
To close off the year, exactEarth announced
a four-year agreement worth 2.7 million
Canadian dollars with MacDonald, Dettwiler
and Associates Ltd. (MDA) to provide AIS
data processing services for the Canadian 31
National Department of Defence’s Polar Ep-
silon 2 (PE2) project. This is a national ini-
tiative that will combine radar and AIS data
from the RADARSAT constellation mission,
in order to provide more detailed maritime
information and identify, detect and track
vessels in Canadian waters, as well as provi-
ding support to the Canadian Armed Forces
both nationally and internationally.