# PAN (Cartosat-2A)
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Panchromatic pushbroom camera flown on Cartosat-2A, specified for better-than-1 m / 0.8 m-class imagery across a 9.6 km swath.

## Specifications
- **product status**: retired
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **manufacturer**: isro
- **sensor**: {"instrument_family":"passive-optical","measurement_principle":"passive","spectral_range_nm":{"min":500,"max":850},"spectral_band_count":1,"gsd_m":{"native":0.8},"swath_km":9.6}
- **entity type**: sensor
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-16
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **provider**: isro
- **attributes**: {"kind":"sensor","product_status":"retired","deployment_context":"orbital","manufacturer":"isro","description":"Panchromatic pushbroom camera flown on Cartosat-2A, specified for better-than-1 m / 0.8 m-class imagery across a 9.6 km swath.","sensor":"{\"instrument_family\":\"passive-optical\",\"measurement_principle\":\"passive\",\"spectral_range_nm\":{\"min\":500,\"max\":850},\"spectral_band_count\":1,\"gsd_m\":{\"native\":0.8},\"swath_km\":9.6}"}
- **technology**: optical-spectral-sensing
- **relevance**: in-scope

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

The instrument covers a 0.50-0.85 micrometre panchromatic channel and uses a pushbroom detector with 12,288 pixels per line.[^wmo-pan-cartosat-2a-b] 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.[^wmo-pan-cartosat-2a-b][^isro-cartosat-2a]

For downlink and processing planning, WMO records 336 Mbps raw data rate and 105 Mbps after compression for the PAN instrument.[^wmo-pan-cartosat-2a-b] 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.[^wmo-pan-cartosat-2a-b]

## Compositional position
- cartosat-2a (missions) --[mission_payloads]--> PAN (Cartosat-2A)

## Sources
- [wmo-pan-cartosat-2a-b] | PAN (CartoSat-2A/B) instrument record, WMO OSCAR | https://space.oscar.wmo.int/instruments/view/pan_cartosat_2a_b | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-16 | published=2017-03-28
- [isro-cartosat-2a] | CARTOSAT-2A mission page, ISRO | https://www.isro.gov.in/CARTOSAT_2A.html | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-16
- [pib-cartosat-2a-launch] | CARTOSAT-2A launch and payload note, Press Information Bureau India | https://www.pib.gov.in/newsite/erelcontent.aspx?relid=41114 | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-16

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