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ISRO releases images of Earth captured by its EOS-06 satellite

Posted on March 31, 2023 by admin1  59

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  • The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released images of Earth captured by the EOS-06 satellite.

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  • The images are generated by the ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC). NRSC/ISRO has generated a global False Colour Composite (FCC) mosaic from the images captured by the Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) payload on board EOS-06.
  • Mosaic with 1 km spatial resolution is generated by combining 2939 individual images, after processing 300 GB data to show the Earth as seen during February 1 and 15.

EOS-06 satellite

  • The EOS-06 third generation satellite in the Oceansat series was launched by ISRO onboard the PSLV-C54 along with eight Nano-satellites on November 26, 2022.
  • EOS-06 provides continued services of Oceansat-2 with enhanced payload capability and carries four payloads OCM-, Sea Surface Temperature Monitor, Ku-Band Scatterometer, and ARGOS.
  • The EOS-06 is envisaged to observe ocean colour data, sea surface temperature and wind vector data to use in Oceanography, climatic and meteorological applications.
  • The satellite also supports value added products such as potential fishing zones using chlorophyll, SST and wind speed and land based geophysical parameters.

What is an Earth Observation satellite?

  • Earth observation satellites are the satellites equipped with remote sensing technology. Earth observation is the gathering of information about Earth’s physical, chemical and biological systems.
  • Many earth observation satellites have been employed on sun-synchronous orbit.
  • They are designed for earth observation from space, which includes military use like spying and civilian uselike, meteorology and cartography.

Source: TH


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