1. Formosat-2 2m Panchromatic 8m multispectral 0.45 – 0.52µm blue
0.52 – 0.6µm green
0.6 – 0.69µm red
0.76 – 0.9µm near IR
24 km swath
cross track and along track +/- 45 degrees
Orbits 14 times daily at 891km and orbits in 103 minutes
8 bit data

2. Formosat-2 Was launched on May 20, 2004
Began captured images since June 4
Mission was to last 5 years
Data is available through Spot's website
earth.esa.int/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=5094

3. Formosat-2 2m image from Kozloduy nuclear power plant in Bulgaria.
2m colour image of Paris

4. Formosat-2
V. Ratnam, Shen, C.M., Chen, W.N., Nee, J.B. "Study on oxygen atmospheric band dayglow: Global and seasonal variations deduced from high resolution Doppler imager observations", JASTP, 66, , 2004.
Cheng-Chien Liu, Chjeng-Lun Shieh, Chaio-An Wh, Ming-Lin Shieh “Change detection of gravel mining on riverbeds from the multi-temporal and high-spatial-resolution formosat-2 imagery” River Research and Applications, 25,9, , 2009