Ocean-Colour Sensors

OSMI
Ocean Scanning Multispectral Imager

AGENCY KARI (Korea)

SATELLITE KOMPSAT (Korea)

LAUNCH DATE 20/12/99

SWATH (km) 800

RESOLUTION (m) 850

# OF BANDS 6

SPECTRAL COVERAGE(nm) 400-900

Data Sources:

KARI KOMPSAT-1 EOC Inventory

OSMI Presentations:

OSMI Applications Overview. Yongseung Kim, 8th IOCCG Meeting, February 2003. [PDF file]

Automated DEM Extraction from the KOMPSAT-1 EOC Images. T. Kim and Y.-J Im, 22nd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, November 2001. [PDF file]

KARI’s OSMI sensor and proposed Korean Geostationary Ocean Colour Imager (KGOCI) by Yu-Hwan Ahn, 10th IOCCG Meeting, 19-21 January 2005, Isla de Margartia, Venezuela. [PDF file]

A Comparative Study and Intercalibration Between OSMI and SeaWiFS. Bryan A. Franz Yongseung Kim [PDF file]

OSMI Publications:

Joo-Hyung Ryu, Jeong-Eon Moon, Palanisamy, S., Yu-Hwan Ahn and Hyun-Cheol Kim (2005). The comparison of Kompsat-1 OSMI and SeaWiFs data in the Korean Sea. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS apos;05. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International Volume 2, Issue , 25-29 July 2005 Page(s): 1181 - 1183

Pan, D., and Kim, Y.-S. (1999). Simulation and Evaluation of the KOMPSAT/OSMI Radiance Imagery. J. Korean Soc. Rem. Sens., 15(2): pp. 131-146.

Yong, S.-S., Shim, H.-S., Heo, H.-P., Cho, Y.-M., Oh, K.-H., Woo, S.-H., and Paik, H.-Y. (1999). The Ground Checkout Test of OSMI on KOMPSAT-1, J. Korean Soc. Rem. Sens., 15(4): pp. 297-305.

OSMI News:

OSMI Acquiring Data (IOCCG News, November 2000)
KOMPSAT satellite launched (IOCCG News, March 2000)
Overview of Kompsat (Spaceflight Now, December 1999)
KOMPSAT starts sending science data to Earth (Spaceflight Now, February 2000)

OSMI Links:

Kompsat 1 (Arirang 1),Gunter's Space Page
Korea Multipurpose Satellite (Kompsat), Topographic Engineering Center
Kompsat-1 Payloads, H.Y. Paik

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