• The Belarusian Satellite (BS)

    The Belarusian Satellite (BS) was launched into orbit by «Sojuz-FG» launch vehicle from the «Baikonur» Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 22, 2012.

    The BS has a Panchromatic Imaging System (PIS) that allows to capture black and white images with a ground resolution of 2.1 meters and a Multispectral Imaging System (MIS) to capture images with a resolution of 10.5 meters using four spectral bandas.

    Applications of the BS images:

    1. Monitoring of anthropic and natural disasters, including casual hydrometeorological phenomena, fires, river rises and flooding.
    2. Generation, update of topographic and navigation maps of 1:25 000 – 1: 100 000 scales.
    3. Supervision of land use and agricultural productions.
    4. Monitoring of forest changes, forest management, forest tenure activities, automated inventory, monitoring of forest recovery works.
    5. Monitoring of dried wetlands.
    6. Inventory and supervision of urban infrastructure objects and mining operations.
    7. Supervision of oil and gas fields and facilities.
    8. Detection of prospective areas for exploration of fossils and minerals.
    9. Monitoring of natural resources and shelf ecology (for foreign customers).
    10. Monitoring of natural and renewable resources.
    11. Environmental and ecological monitoring.

    Main BS specifications

    Parameter
    		 Panchromatic Imaging System (PIS or PAN)
    		 Multispectral Imaging System (MIS or MUL)
    Orbit type
    		Sun-synchronous
    Orbit altitude H, km
    		510
    Active Lifetime, years
    		More than 5
    Ground resolution @ nadir and H=510 km, meters
    		2.1
    		10.5
    Swath width @ H=510 km, km
    		More than 20
    Spectral range
    (w.r.t. 0.1 reference level)
    0.52-0.86 µm
    		 Blue – 0,45 – 0,52 µm
    Green – 0,51 – 0,61 µm
    Red – 0,64 – 0,70 µm
    NIR – 0,73 – 0,86 µm
    Center Wavelength
    0,660 µm

    		 Blue – 0,492 µm
    Green – 0,558 µm
    Red – 0,675 µm
    NIR – 0,782 µm
    Full width half maximum (fwhm)
    0,208 µm

    		 Blue – 0,04 µm
    Green – 0,07 µm
    Red – 0,06 µm
    NIR – 0,1 µm
    Number of spectral channels
    		1
    		4
    Radiometric resolution
    		8 bits per pixel
    Products format
    		 Geotiff
    Metadata format, version
    		 XML, v.1.2.3