UK-DMC Mission

Objectives and Applications

Wide area, medium resolution optical imaging for mapping, crop monitoring, environmental resource and disaster management.

Mission Summary

Full Name
UK Disaster Monitoring Constellation
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
UKSA
Launch Date
27 Sep 2003
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
04 Oct 2011
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
98.4 minutes
Orbit Sense
Ascending
Orbit Inclination
98.2 deg
Orbit Altitude
686 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
9:00
Repeat Cycle
5 days
NORAD Catalog #
27942 (TLE)
International Designator
2003-042D

Mission Instruments

SLIM-6 - Surrey Linear Imager - 6 channel

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereRadiation budget SLIM-6
LandAlbedo and reflectance SLIM-6
Vegetation SLIM-6
Multi-purpose imagery (land) SLIM-6

Featured Datasets

IMAGE2007 European Coverage
Jan-2007
Coverage captured by the DMC constellation (UK-DMC, Beijing-1 and NigeriaSat-1). Images are derived from 32 m resolution optical images from the SLIM-6 instrument. The products avaliable are L1R: Band registered product derived from the L0R product, and L1T: Orthorectified product derived from the L1R product using manually collected GCPs from IMAGE2000 and SRTM DEM V3.1 data. Access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. - Read more
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