Disaster Monitoring Constellation

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. built and operate the satellites for the DMC, which is the first earth observation constellation of five low cost small satellites providing daily images for applications including global disaster monitoring.

The DMC was designed as a proof of concept constellation, capable of multispectral imaging of any part of the world every day. It is unique in that each satellite is independently owned and controlled by a separate nation, but all satellites have been equally spaced around a sun-synchronous orbit to provide daily imaging capability. The daily revisit capability is derived from the coordinated orbit placement and the large area coverage of 600x600km. DMC has agreed to participate in the International Charter and members provide 5% of capacity free to the imaging of disaster areas.

The DMC offers - Affordable Global Monitoring

	Daily revisit
	Multi-spectral Imagery ( Landsat-ETM 2,3,4)
	Very Wide Swath (600km and more)
	32m GSD Resolution

Novel International Partnership

It is through the co-operation of an international consortium that the DMC is possible. Each partner owns an independent small satellite mission that services national needs.By sharing space and ground assets membership of the DMC consortium confers the unique benefit of access to a seamless global monitoring service.

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