BILSAT-1: Launched 2003

In addition to these cameras, BILSAT-1 carried  two payloads designed and built by TUBITAK-ODTU-BILTEN:

• The first, named COBAN, is a nine-band low resolution multi-spectral imager.
• The second, named GEZGIN, is a DSP based image processing module that uses the JPEG2000 algorithm to compress images taken by BILSAT-1's on board cameras.

Both of these payloads were designed and built by Turkish engineers in the context of a training programme that ran in parallel with the BILSAT project

For the processing and compression of the collected multispectral images, a real-time image-processing card that used the JPEG 2000 multispectral compression algorithm was on the satellite as a research and development payload. The card was designed by BILTEN engineers. 

BILSAT-1 was a member of the Disaster Monitoring Constellation until it was taken out of operation in 2006.