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PAN (Cartosat-3)
Cartosat-3 panchromatic pushbroom imaging camera for very-high-resolution land observation and cartography.
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]
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Supply chain position
None on record.
- Optical time-series change detection
Very-high-resolution panchromatic optical imaging supports optical time-series change detection where repeat acquisitions are available.
- [1]NRSC brochure: Major advancements in Cartosat-3agency doc2021-01-012026-06-16
- [2]WMO OSCAR instrument record: PAN (CartoSat-3)community-2026-06-16
- [3]WMO OSCAR satellite record: CartoSat-3community-2026-06-16
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PAN (Cartosat-3). EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/products/sensor/pan-cartosat-3 (CC BY 4.0)
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@misc{eoatlas:products:sensor:pan-cartosat-3,
title = {PAN (Cartosat-3)},
author = {{EO-Atlas}},
publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://eo-atlas.org/products/sensor/pan-cartosat-3}
}