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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – CATALOGUE OF SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS Agency All --- ASI BNSC CAST CDTI CNES CONAE CRESDA CSA CSIRO DLR EC ESA EUMETSAT GISTDA INPE ISRO JAXA JMA KARI METI NASA NASRDA NOAA NRSCC NSAU NSC ROSHYDROMET ROSKOSMOS SANSA SNSB TUBITAK USGS Keyword Filtering (max 20 char) Mission Status Current+Future Current Future Complete All Instrument Instrument Status Operational+Future Operational Future All --- Approved Being developed No longer considered No longer operational Proposed Prototype TBD Mission Type All --- Atmospheric chemistry Atmospheric temperature and humidity sounders Cloud profile and rain radars Communications Data collection Earth radiation budget radiometers Gravity instruments High resolution optical imagers Imaging microwave radars Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave) Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) In situ Lidars Lightning imager Magnetic field Multiple direction/polarisation radiometers Ocean colour instruments Other Precision orbit Radar altimeters Scatterometers Space environment TBD Applications Display 10 25 50 All Results Per Page
Instrument & agency (& any partners) Missions Status Type Measurements & applications Technical characteristics AATSR Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer BNSC Current: Envisat Future: - Complete: - Operational Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) and multiple direction/polarisation radiometers Measurements of sea surface temperature, land surface temperature, cloud top temperature, cloud cover, aerosols, vegetation, atmospheric water vapour and liquid water content Waveband: VIS - NIR: 0.555 µm, 0.659 µm, 0.865 µm, SWIR: 1.6 µm, MWIR: 3.7 µm, TIR: 10.85 µm, 12 µm Spatial resolution: IR ocean channels: 1 x 1 km, Visible land channels: 1 x 1 km Swath width: 500 km Accuracy: Sea surface temperature: <0.5 K over 0.5 x 0.5 deg (lat/long) area with 80% cloud cover Land surface temperature: 0.1 K (relative) ABI Advanced Baseline Imager NOAA Current: - Future: GOES-R, GOES-S Complete: - Being developed Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) Detects clouds, cloud properties, water vapour, land and sea surface temperatures, dust, aerosols, volcanic ash, fires, total ozone, snow and ice cover, vegetation index Waveband: 16 bands in vis, NIR and IR ranging from 0.47 µm to 13.3 µm Spatial resolution: 0.5 km in 0.64 µm band; 2.0 km in long wave IR and in the 1.378 µm band; 1.0 km in all others Swath width: Accuracy: Varies by product ACC Accelerometer ESA Current: - Future: Swarm Complete: - Being developed Precision orbit and space environment Measurement of the spacecraft non-gravitational accelerations, linear accelerations range: +/- 2*10-4 m/s2; angular measurement range: +/- 9.6* 10-3 rad/s2; measurement bandwidth: 10-4 to 10-2 Hz; Linear resolution: 1.8*10-10 m/s2; angular resolution: 8*10-9 rad/s2 Waveband: N/A Spatial resolution: 0.1 nm/s2 Swath width: N/A Accuracy: overall instrument random error: <10-8 m/s2 ACE-FTS Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) Fourier Transform Spectrometer CSA Current: SCISAT-1 Future: - Complete: - Operational Atmospheric chemistry Measure and understand the chemical processes that control the distribution of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere, especially at high altitudes. Waveband: SWIR - TIR: 2 - 5.5 µm, 5.5 - 13 µm (0.02 cm-1 resolution) Spatial resolution: Swath width: Accuracy: ACRIM III Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor NASA Current: ACRIMSAT Future: - Complete: - Operational Earth radiation budget radiometers Measurements of solar luminosity and solar constant. Data used as record of time variation of total solar irradiance, from extreme UV through to infrared Waveband: UV - MWIR: 0.15 - 5 µm Spatial resolution: 5 deg FOV Swath width: 71 mins per orbit of full solar disk data Accuracy: 0.1% of full scale A-DCS4 ARGOS-Data Collection System NOAA Current: GOES-14, NOAA-19, GOES-13 Future: Metop-C, NPOESS-2, NPOESS-1, GOES-P, NPOESS-3, NPOESS-4 Complete: - Operational Data collection Data collection and communication system for receiving and retransmitting data from ocean and land-based remote observing platforms/transponders Waveband: UHF Spatial resolution: Swath width: Accuracy: AEISS Advanced Electronic Image Scanning System KARI (ASTRIUM) Current: - Future: KOMPSAT-3 Complete: - Being developed High resolution optical imagers High resolution imager for land applications of cartography and disaster monitoring Waveband: Spatial resolution: Swath width: 15km Accuracy: AIRS Atmospheric Infra-red Sounder NASA Current: Aqua Future: - Complete: - Operational Atmospheric temperature and humidity sounders High spectral resolution measurement of temperature and humidity profiles in the atmosphere. Long-wave Earth surface emissivity. Cloud diagnostics. Trace gas profiles. Surface temperatures. Waveband: VIS - TIR: 0.4 - 1.7 µm, 3.4 - 15.4 µm, Has approximately 2382 bands from VIS to TIR Spatial resolution: 1.1 degree (13 x 13 km at nadir) Swath width: +/-48.95 degrees Accuracy: Humidity: 20%, Temperature: 1 K AIS (RCM) Automated Identification System (RADARSAT Constellation) CSA Current: - Future: RADARSAT CONSTELLATION-1, RADARSAT CONSTELLATION-2, RADARSAT CONSTELLATION-3 Complete: - Being developed Communications Ship identification (name, location, heading, cargo etc.) Waveband: Microwave: 162 MHz Spatial resolution: N/A Swath width: 800 km Accuracy: TBD ALADIN Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument ESA Current: - Future: ADM-Aeolus Complete: - Being developed Lidars Global wind profiles (single line-of-sight) for an improved weather prediction Waveband: UV: 355 nm Spatial resolution: One wind profile every 200 km along track, averaged over 50 km Swath width: Along line 285 km parallel to satellite ground track Accuracy: Wind speed error below 2 m/s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
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