PAN (Cartosat-3)

PAN (Cartosat-3) is the single-channel panchromatic camera on Cartosat-3, separate from the mission's four-band MX multispectral camera.^[1][2] It is a passive optical high-resolution imager for VNIR panchromatic acquisition.^[2] The panchromatic channel spans 450-900 nm ^[1]; a 500-850 nm range is also associated with the instrument.^[2] Native ground sampling is 0.28 m at nadir or the sub-satellite point, over a swath of about 17 km.^[1][2] The payload uses 11-bit quantisation.^[1] Cartosat-3 supports along-track and across-track steering, including in-orbit stereoscopy and cross-track field-of-regard imaging.^[1][2] PAN is used for very-high-resolution land imagery, cartography, cadastral-scale mapping, infrastructure observation and detailed boundary observation, and is capable of optical time-series change-detection workflows.^[1][2]