TOKYO: Japan is scheduled to launch a new mapping satellite on Saturday that will be used to survey damage from natural disasters and changes affecting rain forests.
ALOS-2 will be able to monitor scars left by natural disasters as well as progress made in reconstruction, JAXA said.
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