Wednesday, December 3, 2008

FORMOSAT-2 products are available in 3 preprocessing levels

  • Level 1A
    Radiometric corrections to remove distortions due to variations in sensitivity of elementary detectors in the imaging sensor.
  • Level 2A
    Radiometric corrections identical to Level 1A. Geometric corrections to frame the image in a given map projection (default projection is UTM WGS 84).
  • Ortho
    Radiometric corrections identical to Level 1A. Geometric corrections to frame the image in a map projection specified by the user and to remove relief distortions (map and/or control points and digital elevation model supplied by user).

FORMAT

Products are delivered in DIMAP format:

  • Image in GeoTiff
  • Metadata in XML

DELIVERY

  • Posted online (FTP) within 48 - 72 working hours of acquisition
  • CD-ROM/DVD if requested
FORMOSAT-2 Mapping Appli

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