Session
Poster Session 3
Location
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Abstract
Space Agency of Paraguay (AEP) has an ambitious goal to achieve an initiative for developments, operations and utilizations of small satellites in Latin America. Authors collaborated to enhance Paraguayan space programs on socioeconomic benefits through 3 items: 1) providing a technical transfer program about small satellite developments, including Paraguayan 2nd small satellite, GuaraniSat-2 Engineering Model tests in Japan; 2) creating a flood hazard map and designing inter-sectional framework for evacuation planning as a satellite data application on disaster management; and 3) developing soybean monitoring systems through multiple optical satellite data analysis and combining weather information with agricultural and Livestock minitries and institutions. This project (the Project) was established by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in 2023. It was the first space cooperation project for Japan and Paraguay in Latin America.
GuaraniSat Series has been developed and operated under the cooperation with Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), Japan since 2019. The 1-U satellite, GuaraniSat-1 was launched February 2021. AEP develops another 3-U satellite, GuaraniSat-2 by themselves. For enhancing their satellite development abilities and testing GuaraniSat-2 Engineering Model, authors requested Kyutech to provide a training program for small satellite developments and GuaraniSat-2 Engineering Model test between October 2024 and May 2025. A total of 3 AEP engineers achieved knowledge through the program.
For satellite data applications, authors considered and contributed more through the Project. Floods have serious impacts in urban areas of Paraguay. Authors invite specialists from relevant ministries and institutions for establishing Working Group to develop a hazard map and the inter-sectional framework against floods. Authors and other Working Group members had a training program on open-free flood simulation software, iRIC for identifying flood impacts by a single river channel using digital elevation models between September 2024 and January 2025. They developed a hazard map and operation manuals based on the simulation results.
Paraguay produces the 6th largest amount of soybeans worldwide, but its productions are unstable due to climate and economic impacts on agricultural sectors. To produce soybeans stably, the authors applied multiple optical satellite data analyses into soybean fields, monitoring the relevant agency’s test fields through a cycle of soybean growth. The methods and results were also shared and discussed at Working Group consisted with AEP and agricultural ministry and institutions in Paraguay. Authors verify their methods by applying another soybean season between February and August this year, 2025.
The Project was designed as the first step for deepening international space cooperation between Japan and Paraguay through technical transfers about small satellite developments and satellite data applications on disaster management and agriculture in Paraguay. Cooperation and enhancement of space program abilities through capacity building about small satellite developments and implementing satellite data applications would be able to contribute to Paraguayan socioeconomic especially efficient disaster management and agricultural productivity and quality improvement and effective. Paraguayan satellite launches, moreover, have been supported by Japan; the Project was expected to strengthen science technologies and international space cooperation between Japan and Paraguay.
Document Type
Event
International Space Cooperation between Japan and Paraguay
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Space Agency of Paraguay (AEP) has an ambitious goal to achieve an initiative for developments, operations and utilizations of small satellites in Latin America. Authors collaborated to enhance Paraguayan space programs on socioeconomic benefits through 3 items: 1) providing a technical transfer program about small satellite developments, including Paraguayan 2nd small satellite, GuaraniSat-2 Engineering Model tests in Japan; 2) creating a flood hazard map and designing inter-sectional framework for evacuation planning as a satellite data application on disaster management; and 3) developing soybean monitoring systems through multiple optical satellite data analysis and combining weather information with agricultural and Livestock minitries and institutions. This project (the Project) was established by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in 2023. It was the first space cooperation project for Japan and Paraguay in Latin America.
GuaraniSat Series has been developed and operated under the cooperation with Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), Japan since 2019. The 1-U satellite, GuaraniSat-1 was launched February 2021. AEP develops another 3-U satellite, GuaraniSat-2 by themselves. For enhancing their satellite development abilities and testing GuaraniSat-2 Engineering Model, authors requested Kyutech to provide a training program for small satellite developments and GuaraniSat-2 Engineering Model test between October 2024 and May 2025. A total of 3 AEP engineers achieved knowledge through the program.
For satellite data applications, authors considered and contributed more through the Project. Floods have serious impacts in urban areas of Paraguay. Authors invite specialists from relevant ministries and institutions for establishing Working Group to develop a hazard map and the inter-sectional framework against floods. Authors and other Working Group members had a training program on open-free flood simulation software, iRIC for identifying flood impacts by a single river channel using digital elevation models between September 2024 and January 2025. They developed a hazard map and operation manuals based on the simulation results.
Paraguay produces the 6th largest amount of soybeans worldwide, but its productions are unstable due to climate and economic impacts on agricultural sectors. To produce soybeans stably, the authors applied multiple optical satellite data analyses into soybean fields, monitoring the relevant agency’s test fields through a cycle of soybean growth. The methods and results were also shared and discussed at Working Group consisted with AEP and agricultural ministry and institutions in Paraguay. Authors verify their methods by applying another soybean season between February and August this year, 2025.
The Project was designed as the first step for deepening international space cooperation between Japan and Paraguay through technical transfers about small satellite developments and satellite data applications on disaster management and agriculture in Paraguay. Cooperation and enhancement of space program abilities through capacity building about small satellite developments and implementing satellite data applications would be able to contribute to Paraguayan socioeconomic especially efficient disaster management and agricultural productivity and quality improvement and effective. Paraguayan satellite launches, moreover, have been supported by Japan; the Project was expected to strengthen science technologies and international space cooperation between Japan and Paraguay.
