On May 5th National Science Council announced Executive Yuan’s 2007 Award for Outstanding Contributions in Science and Technology, the most prestigious prize in technology field of Taiwan, goes to the Image Processing System (IPS) team, lead by Dr. Frank Wu of National Space Organization (NSPO), for their achievement on the development of high resolution image processing system for high agility satellite and setting the coerstone for domestic and international terminals. NSPO is the only space research institute under National Applied Research Lab (NARL).Image processing system, a cooperation between NSPO and Tatung System Technologies Inc. since 2001, was the largest indigenous integrated remote sensing image process system of Taiwan. Since then, the relentless pursuit of better satellite image quality of the IPS team has created rooms for many applications in disasters / environment monitoring, land uses, urban planning and national security etc. Even more, IPS team is able to acquire images on both North and South poles by taking the advantage of FORMOSAT-2’s unique orbit design and agility capability,IPS, under FORMOSAT-2 program of NSPO, includes four subsystems: Planning and Scheduling subsystem (PSS), Data Ingestion subsystem (DIS), Data Management subsystem (DMS), and Data Processing subsystem (DPS). With concurrent consideration of its main function, operation requirement, risk, and cost, IPS comes up with strategies for each subsystem. For DIS, basic specifications were determined by NSPO and contract to foreign company for development. For DMS, basic system requirement was done by NSPO and developed by domestic company. For both PSS and DPS subsystems, from design to development, were done in NSPO.After completion of system development, verification and enhancement, NSPO and Tatung System Technologies Inc. started to develop FORMOSAT-2 terminal, a simplified image processing system without DIS and PSS functions. In Taiwan, NSPO works with universities, such as NCKU, NTU and NTNU, to create FORMOSAT-2 data distribution center at NSPO and two overseas image receiving stations. With these facilities, IPS dramatically increases FORMOSAT-2 image acquiring capability and image data usage.Based on the experience of FORMOSAT-2 image processing system development, the next step for IPS team is to develop a complete image processing system to further enhance the space remote sensing technology capabilities of Taiwan.