5 Meter Natural Colour Ortho-mosaic
5 Meter Natural Colour
IRS Ortho-mosaics

X-Band Receiving Station

Reception of data from the fleet of IRS satellites is performed in close cooperation between DLR and Euromap, with the three 7.3 m X-band antennas in Neustrelitz playing the major role. The geographical coordinates 13 degrees, 04', 28" East and 53 degrees, 19', 48" North at an elevation of about 78 m allow coverage of the whole of Europe, from northern Norway to North Africa, and from Iceland to the western parts of the Caspian Sea.

Neustrelitz X-band antennas
Two of the X-band antennas in Neustrelitz

IRS Processing Chains

Processing of IRS data is performed with Euromap's dedicated chains for quick looks, standard data products and 5 m colour Merge products, which are implemented on UNIX like operating systems running on cutting edge SGI and industrial PC hardware.
For the production of ortho-mosaics a processing chain of GAF AG in Munich is used. Very large image processing projects are managed by GAF AG and utilising their resources in Munich and those of a partner in India.