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- [Source: Gunter's Space Page, http://space.skyrocket.de/index_frame.htm?http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/bilsat-1.htm ]
The Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) is a novel international co-operation in space, led by SSTL bringing together organisations from seven countries: Algeria, China, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Vietnam. The DMC Consortium is forming the first-ever microsatellite constellation bringing remarkable Earth observation capabilities both nationally to the individual satellite owners, and internationally to benefit world-wide humanitarian aid efforts. BILSAT experiments include two payloads designed and built by SSTL's Turkish customer, TUBITAK-ODTU-BILTEN. - The first, named COBAN, is a nine-band low resolution multi-spectral imager. - The second, named GEZGIN, is a DSP based image processing module that uses the JPEG2000 algorithm to compress images taken by BILSAT-1's on board cameras. Both of these payloads were designed and built by BILTEN engineers in the context of the KHTT (Know How Training and Transfer) programme that ran in parallel with the BILSAT project. Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: BILSAT-1 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: DMC-1G (Disaster Monitoring Constellation- 1st Generation) Short_Name: BILSAT-1 End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: COBAN End_Group Creation_Date: 2008-08-18 Online_Resource: http://www.sstl.co.uk/Missions/BILSAT-1--Launched-2003/BILSAT-1/BILSAT-1--The-Mission Online_Resource: http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/bilsat-1.htm Sample_Image: http://www.skyrocket.de/space/img_sat/bilsat-1__1.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 2003-09-27 Launch_Site: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia Design_Life: Fulfilled mission life time in August 2006 Primary_Sponsor: Turkey/BILTEN End_Group End_Group
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