CARTOSAT-2 program data

On January 10, 2007 another IRS series satellite – CARTOSAT-2 – was successfully launched from the Indian Sriharikota launch pad. It has expanded the product line of IRS satellite systems, taking now first place in details of the images delivered and being a very agile spacecraft. The principal advantage of the CARTOSAT-2 satellite is the possibility to cover a large non-linear target with an intricate configuration with submeter resolution imagery (0.8 m) at the shortest possible period of time.

Being a 680 kg satellite, running on the polar sun-synchronous orbit of 630 km high, CARTOSAT-2 enables to deliver images of one and the same area once in 4 days. Onboard instruments perform imaging in panchromatic mode with the maximum spatial resolution up to 0.8 m in 9.6 km swath. Main satellite mission – delivering space images to resolve cartographic tasks in a variety of activities.

On April 25, 2008 an agreement between ScanEx RDC and ANTRIX Corporation Ltd was signed for data reception from CARTOSAT-2. According to this agreement an exclusive right to integrate patent software for CARTOSAT-2 data reception into the proprietary UniScan™ ground stations was granted to ScanEx RDC. This agreement allows ScanEx to upgrade the existing and to outfit the new UniScan^TM ground stations to provide CARTOSAT-2 data reception over the territory of Russia and CIS countries, as well as to commercially distribute CARTOSAT-2 data and to render data processing services. ScanEx Center accepts orders for VHR data, delivered from CARTOSAT-2 satellite.