KOMPSAT-1 Mission

Objectives and Applications

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

Mission Summary

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
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

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

Mission Instruments

EOC - Electro-Optical Camera
OSMI - Ocean Scanning Multispectral Imager

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAtmospheric Humidity Fields OSMI
LandAlbedo and reflectance EOC
Landscape topography EOC
Multi-purpose imagery (land) EOC
OceanOcean colour/biology OSMI
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) OSMI

Featured Datasets

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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