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

Subject : Science and technology

Section: Space technology

Concept :

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

Details

The images are a mosaic 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.

About EOS-06 satellite:

The EOS-06 third generation satellite in the Oceansat series was launched by ISRO on board 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 zone using chlorophyll, SST and wind speed and land based geophysical parameters.

Earth Observation satellite

Earth Observation (EO) satellites are designed for earth observation from space, which includes military use like spying and civilian use like, meteorology and cartography.
These satellites make essential information available on a vast number of areas, including; ocean salinity, ice thickness, crop health, and air quality.
The data from these satellites are used for several applications like agriculture, urban planning, rural development, mineral prospecting, environment, forestry, ocean resources and disaster management.