KOMPSAT-1 Satellite Mission Summary

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - KOMPSAT-1 -

Full Name

Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite 1

Status

Mission complete

Mission Agencies

KARI

Launch Date

21 Dec 1999

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

31 Jan 2008

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

26032 (TLE)

International Designator

1999-070A

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

98.5 minutes

Orbit Sense

Ascending

Orbit Inclination

Orbit Altitude

685 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

10:50

Repeat Cycle

28 days

Objectives and Applications

Cartography, land use and planning, disaster monitoring, Global marine resource and environmental monitoring, ocean contamination and chlorophyll detection.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	OSMI
Land	Albedo and reflectance	EOC
	Landscape topography	EOC
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	EOC
Ocean	Ocean colour/biology	OSMI
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	OSMI

Mission Instruments

EOC - Electro-Optical Camera

OSMI - Ocean Scanning Multispectral Imager

Featured Datasets
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KOMPSAT-1 Coverage of 50 European Cities
Dec-2008

Available as a sample collection of data acquired by KOMPSAT-1’s Electro-Optical Camera (EOC) with no orthorectification or radiometric calibration. The dataset includes PAN imagery at 6.6 m GSD, with a swath of 17 km. Data are available in TIFF format and correspond to Level 1B processing. Access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. Read more

OpenSearch Datasets

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KOMPSAT-1 Coverage of 50 European Cities

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KOMPSAT-1 Coverage of 50 European Cities

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