EO·Atlas
MSC (KOMPSAT-2)
High-resolution passive optical camera flown on KOMPSAT-2, with 1 m panchromatic and 4 m multispectral imaging over a 15 km swath.
MSC (KOMPSAT-2) is the Multi-Spectral Camera flown on KOMPSAT-2, also known as Arirang-2.[1][2] It is a passive optical high-resolution camera combining one panchromatic channel and four multispectral channels.[2] The channel set is PAN 500-900 nm, blue 450-520 nm, green 520-600 nm, red 630-690 nm and near-infrared 760-900 nm.[2] Ground sampling is 1 m for panchromatic imagery and 4 m for multispectral imagery, with a 15 km swath.[1][2] MSC supports high-resolution land, vegetation, mapping, cartography, natural-hazard and resource applications.[3][2] The sensor is archive-oriented: selected ESA archive products were acquired from 2007 to 2014, and the KOMPSAT-2 mission is complete.[2][3] MSC has demonstrated vegetation-index mapping and is capable of optical time-series change-detection workflows from KOMPSAT-2 imagery.[2]
Compositional position
- Vegetation index mappingvia KOMPSAT-2
MSC includes visible and NIR multispectral bands; CEOS records vegetation and land measurements for KOMPSAT-2 MSC.
- Optical time-series change detection
KOMPSAT-2 archive imagery can support optical change analysis across repeated scenes, but current new tasking is not available.
- [1]KOMPSAT-2 Image Data Manual, KARI via ESA Earth Onlineoperator datasheet-2026-06-16
- [2]FedEO collection metadata: KOMPSAT-2 ESA archiveagency doc2017-01-012026-06-16
- [3]CEOS MIM mission summary: KOMPSAT-2agency doc-2026-06-16