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EOS-06 satellite captures phytoplankton concentration on global scale : ISRO

EOS-06 satellite captures phytoplankton concentration on global scale : ISRO

Chennai, Feb 7 (UNI) In an yet another significant breakthrough, the Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday announced that one of the
payloads on board the EOS-06 Earth Observation Satellite has captured
phytoplankton concentration on a global scale in two days frequency.
In a post on X, ISRO, sharing the images, said the Ocean Colour Monitor
(OCM) sensor onboard the EOS-06 satellite has captured phytoplankton
concentration on a global scale.
The Ocean colour observations helps in gathering valuable information on
bio-geo chemical variability of oceans in a global scale.
"OCM sensor in EOS-06 captures Phytoplankton concentration on global scale
Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) sensor of EOS-06 captures chlorophyll-a (Chl-a)
concentration in global scale at a frequency of 2 days, it said.
"The below image shows global product generated at 1km resolution using data
for the period Jan-Dec 2024", it added.
"Ocean colour observations helps in gathering valuable information on bio-geo
chemical variability of oceans in a global scale", the Space Agency said.
EOS-06 was launched successfully on November 26, 2022, using PSLV-C54.
EOS-06 is part of the Oceansat series of satellites, which are designed to
monitor and study various aspects of the Earth's oceans and coastal zones.
EOS-6 is the third-generation satellite in the Oceansat series. This is to provide
continuity services of Oceansat-2 spacecraft with enhanced payload specifications
as well as application areas.
The payloads are Ocean Color Monitor (OCM-3); Sea Surface Temperature Monitor
(SSTM); Ku-Band Scatterometer (SCAT-3) and ARGOS.
The Mission objectives is to ensure the data continuity of Ocean colour and wind vector
data to sustain the operational applications; to improve the applications, some additional
datasets such as Sea Surface Temperature and more number of bands in Optical region
for florescence and in Infrared region for atmospheric corrections are accommodated and
to develop/improve related algorithms and data products to serve in well-established
application areas and to enhance the mission utility.
The PSLV-C54 along with EOS-06 (Earth Observation Satellite-06) also launched eight
Nano-satellites into two different SSPOs. The Primary satellite (EOS-06) was separated
in Orbit-1 and subsequently Orbit change was planned by using two Orbit Change Thrusters
(OCTs) introduced in the Propulsion Bay Ring of the PSLV-C54 Vehicle and the Passenger
Payloads (PPLs) were separated in Orbit-2.
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