Ocean Satellite-2

Indian Space Research Organisation
September, 2009 to September, 2016

The ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) spacecraft OceanSat-2 is envisaged to provide service continuity for the operational users of OCM (Ocean Color Monitor) data as well as to enhance the application potential in other areas. OCM is flown on IRS-P4/OceanSat-1, launched May 26, 1999. The main objectives of OceanSat-2 are to study surface winds and ocean surface strata, observation of chlorophyll concentrations, monitoring of phytoplankton blooms, study of atmospheric aerosols and suspended sediments in the water. OceanSat-2 will play an important role in forecasting the onset of the monsoon and its subsequent advancement over the Indian subcontinent and over South-East Asia. - The OceanSat-2 mission was approved by the Government of India on July 16, 2005.

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Instrument	Datasets
Ocean Colour Monitor	0
Radio Occultation Sounder for the Atmosphere	0
Scatterometer (OCEANSAT-2)	1

Also known as :

• missionID 278 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission OCEANSAT-2 (ceos lexicon)
• resource Oceansat-2 (dbpedia lexicon)
• Platform Oceansat-2 (podaac lexicon)