Description:

FORMOSAT-2 is an NSPO (National Space Program Office) of Taiwan Earth imaging satellite with the objective to collect high-resolution panchromatic (2 m) and multispectral (8 m) imagery for a great variety of applications such as in land use, agriculture and forestry, environmental monitoring, natural disaster evaluation, and in support of research interests, in particular with the ISUAL (Imager of Sprites and Upper Atmospheric Lightning) instrument. Daily image coverage of Taiwan and the surrounding region is required. Besides providing imagery for the domestic needs of Taiwan, the spacecraft is frequently being used to deliver high-resolution imagery for event monitoring (coverage of the Tsunami in Asia on 26 December 2004 and thereafter, coverage of Hurricane Katarina in August 2005, coverage of Typhoons on the Pacific, coverage of earthquake regions, etc.). The spacecraft is operating nominally as of 2006. Operators: NSPO (National Space Program Office) of Taiwan Date of Launch: 20 May 2004 Status: Operational as from June 2004 Orbit Height: 888 km Orbit Type: Sun-synchronous Resolution: 2 m for PAN (Panchromatic band), 8 m for MS (Multispectral bands) imagery Swath Width: 24 km FORMOSAT-2 products are available in 3 preprocessing levels: Level 1A Radiometric corrections to remove distortions due to variations in sensitivity of elementary detectors in the imaging sensor. Level 2A Radiometric corrections identical to Level 1A. Geometric corrections to frame the image in a given map projection (default projection is UTM WGS 84). Ortho Radiometric corrections identical to Level 1A. Geometric corrections to frame the image in a map projection specified by the user and to remove relief distortions (map and/or control points and digital elevation model supplied by user). Price List: http://www.intelligence-airbusds.com/en/11-products-services

Links:

• Data link
• Metadata link
• Metadata link
• FORMOSAT-2

Temporal Extent:

Start: 2004-06-01T00:00:00.000Z

Spatial Extent:

Minimum Bounding Rectangle: -90 -180 90 180

SCIOPS Short Name: FORMOSAT-2 Version ID: Not provided Unique ID: C1214598043-SCIOPS