Objectives and Applications
Cartography, land use and planning, disaster monitoring, Global marine resource and environmental monitoring, ocean contamination and chlorophyll detection.
Full Name
Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite 1
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
21 Dec 1999
Mission Links
EOL Date
31 Jan 2008
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
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
EOC - Electro-Optical Camera |
| OSMI - Ocean Scanning Multispectral Imager |
| 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 |
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 |