CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY - MSC -
Full Name Multi-Spectral Camera Status Operational
Instrument Agencies KARI, E-LOP Maturity High Heritage - Operational
Instrument Type High resolution optical imagers Geometry Push-broom scanning
Instrument Technology High resolution optical imager Sampling Imaging
Data Access Very Constrained Access Data Format GEOTIF
Measurements and Applications High resolution imager for land applications of cartography and disaster monitoring.
Resolution Summary Pan: 1 m; VIS-NIR: 4 m
[Best Resolution: 1m]
Swath Summary 15 km
[Max Swath: 15 km]
Accuracy Summary
Waveband Summary Panchromatic VIS: 0.50 - 0.90 µm, VIS: 0.45 - 0.52 µm, 0.52 - 0.60 µm, 0.63 - 0.69 µm, NIR: 0.76 - 0.90 µm
VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm)
NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm)
Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
CategoryParameter
Landscape topographyLand surface topography
Multi-purpose imagery (land)Land surface imagery
VegetationVegetation type
Instrument Missions
KOMPSAT-2 - Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite -2 (2006 - 2023)