Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. delivered the Beijing-1 satellite to the Beijing Landview Mapping Information Technology Co. Ltd., the British satellite manufacturer announced June 30.

The Earth observation microsatellite can collect black-and-white imagery with a ground resolution of 4 meters and color imagery with a resolution of 32 meters. The data will be used for agriculture, water resources, environment and disaster monitoring project throughout China.

The satellite, built for 10 million British pounds ($18.4 million) and launched in October, also may join the internationally coordinated Disaster Monitoring Constellation that is led by Surrey Satellite and includes satellites operated by Algeria, Nigeria, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The constellation gathers daily images of given locations to monitor rapid changes a single satellite could not observe.