PAN (Cartosat-2A)

PAN on Cartosat-2A is a single-band VNIR panchromatic pushbroom optical imager carried by ISRO's Cartosat-2A mission.^[1] The payload launched on 2008-04-28, and its specifications align with the shared Cartosat-2A/B PAN instrument record.^[1][2]

The instrument covers a 0.50-0.85 micrometre panchromatic channel and uses a pushbroom detector with 12,288 pixels per line.^[2] It is specified with a 9.6 km swath and 0.80 m sub-satellite-point resolution, while ISRO describes Cartosat-2A imagery as better than 1 m class.^[2][1]

For downlink and processing planning, WMO records 336 Mbps raw data rate and 105 Mbps after compression for the PAN instrument.^[2] The mission context is retired or decommissioned, while the shared WMO utilization record for Cartosat-2A/B PAN extends to 2026; buyers should therefore treat this row as a historical high-resolution panchromatic imaging payload rather than a current new-tasking sensor.^[2]