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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
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Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments
Short_Name: COBAN
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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
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