Earth images captured by EOS-06 satellite released by ISRO

Chennai, Mar 30 (Agency) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)has released the images of earth captured by EOS-06 Satellite launchedby its reliable launch vehicle PSLV on November 26, 2022. In a series of tweets, ISRO said NRSC/ISRO has generated global FalseColour Composite (FCC) mosaic from the images captured by the OceanColour Monitor (OCM) payload on board EOS-06. The mosaic with 1 km spatial resolution is generated by combining 2,939individual images, after processing 300 GB data to show the Earth as seenduring February 1-15, 2023, it said.

OCM senses the Earth in 13 distinct wavelengths to provide informationabout global vegetation cover on Land and Ocean Biota for global oceans. ISRO’s work horse PSLV-C54 had successfully launched EOS-06 satellitealong with eight Nano-satellites into two different SSPOs from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR Range, Sriharikota on November 26, 2022. EOS-06 is third generation satellite in the Oceansat series, which providescontinued services of Oceansat-2 with enhanced payload capability. The satellite onboard carried four important payloads viz.

Ocean ColorMonitor (OCM-3), Sea Surface Temperature Monitor (SSTM), Ku-BandScatterometer (SCAT-3), ARGOS.The Oceansat-2 which was launched during September-2009 configuredto cover global oceans and provide continuity of ocean colour data withglobal wind vector and characterization of lower atmosphere andionosphere. The mission resulted in many research collaborations nationally andinternationally on various areas global chlorophyll distribution, Kd 490distribution, ocean color images, oil spillages, wind vector products.