KOMPSAT-1 Panchromatic Imagery for 50 European Cities

KOMPSAT-1's Electro-Optical Camera captured this single collection of orthorectified panchromatic imagery over 50 European cities. The European Space Agency (ESA) provides the data in GeoTIFF format with a 6.6-meter ground sample distance. The dataset's last recorded update was in August 2004.

Use Cases

• Analyzing urban expansion patterns using the 6.6-meter GSD panchromatic (PAN) imagery for specific cities.
• Creating historical basemaps for European urban areas from the orthorectified GeoTIFF files.
• Training land cover classification models on the high-resolution PAN data from the KOMPSAT-1 EOC sensor.
• Conducting comparative studies of city layouts and infrastructure across the 50 different European locations.

Strengths

• Covers 50 distinct European cities, providing a broad spatial sample.
• Imagery is orthorectified and geolocated, reducing geometric distortion.
• Panchromatic data offers a 6.6-meter ground sample distance (GSD).

Limitations

• Data is from 2004 or earlier, making it temporally stale for contemporary analysis.
• Contains only panchromatic (PAN) imagery, lacking multispectral bands for detailed spectral analysis.
• The exact number of images, file sizes, and specific city list are not provided.

Provenance

Source

European Space Agency (ESA) via NASA Earthdata.

Collection Method

Acquired by the KOMPSAT-1 satellite's Electro-Optical Camera (EOC).

Freshness

Last updated in 2004; no update frequency indicated.

Geography

50 European cities.