BackForwardInstrument:  PAN (IRS) 

Instrument details
Acronym PAN (IRS)
Full name Panchromatic Camera
Purpose Very-high-resolution land imagery
Short description Single VNIR channel (0.50-0.85 µm), SNR = 345 @ 550 W m-2 sr-1 µm-1
Background New development
Scanning Technique Pushbroom, 12288 pixel/line, swaths 70 km. Addressable within a field of regard of 400 km
Resolution 5.8 km
Coverage / Cycle Depending on pointing strategy. Repeat cycle for a selected local scene: one week minimum, in daylight
Mass 120 kg Power 60 W Data Rate 336 Mbps (105 Mbps after compression)

 

Providing Agency ISRO
Instrument Maturity Flown on an R&D satellite
Utilization Period: 1996 to 2010
Last update: 2022-07-25
Detailed characteristics
Satellites this instrument is flying on

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Instrument classification
  • Earth observation instrument
  • Passive optical radiometer or spectrometer
  • High resolution optical imager
WIGOS Subcomponents
  • Subcomponent 4
  • GNSS radio occultation (commercial)
  • High-resolution optical observation constellation (commercial)
Mission objectives
Primary mission objectives
  • Fire fractional cover
Evaluation of Measurements