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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – CATALOGUE OF SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS Agency All --- ASI CAST CDTI CNES CONAE CRESDA CSA CSIRO DLR EC ESA EUMETSAT GISTDA INPE ISRO JAXA JMA KARI METI NASA NASRDA NOAA NRSCC NSAU NSC NSMC-CMA ROSHYDROMET ROSKOSMOS SANSA SNSB TUBITAK UKSA 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 Waveband All --- UV (~0.01 µm - ~0.40 µm) VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) SWIR (~1.3 µm - ~3.0 µm) MWIR (~3.0 µm - ~6.0 µm) TIR (~6.0 µm - ~15.0 µm) FIR (~15.0 µm - ~0.1 cm) MW (~1.0 cm - ~100 cm) Ka-Band (26.5 to 40 GHz) K-Band (18 to 26.5 GHz) Ku-Band (12.5 to 18 GHz) X-Band (12.5 - 8 GHz) C-Band (8 - 4 GHz) S-Band (4 - 2 GHz) L-Band (2 - 1 GHz) P-Band (0.999 - 0.2998 GHz) W-Band (94 GHz) Spatial Resolution Best All --- < 1 m 1-10 m 10-100 m 100 m+ --- < 10 m < 100 m All Specified Display 10 25 50 All Results Per Page Data Access All --- Open Access Constrained Access Very Constrained Access No Access All Specified
Instrument & agency (& any partners) Missions Status Type Measurements & applications Technical characteristics 3MI 3MI EUMETSAT Current: - Future: EPS-SG-a Complete: - Proposed   Instrument TBC. Waveband: Spatial resolution: Swath width: Accuracy: Data Access: Data Format: AATSR Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer UKSA 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 VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, TIR Spatial resolution: IR ocean channels: 1 x 1 km, Visible land channels: 1 x 1 km Best resolution: 1000 m 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) Data Access: Open Access Data Format: 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 VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, TIR 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 Best resolution: 500 m Swath width: Accuracy: Varies by product Data Access: Data Format: 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 N/A Spatial resolution: 0.1 nm/s2 Swath width: N/A Accuracy: overall instrument random error: <10-8 m/s2 Data Access: Open Access Data Format: 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) SWIR, MWIR, TIR Spatial resolution: Swath width: Accuracy: Depends on species, meets requiremens for climate variables Data Access: Open Access Data Format: 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 UV, VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR Spatial resolution: 5 deg FOV Swath width: 71 mins per orbit of full solar disk data Accuracy: 0.1% of full scale Data Access: Open Access Data Format: HDF-EOS A-DCS4 ARGOS-Data Collection System NOAA Current: GOES-14, GOES-15, GOES-13, NOAA-19 Future: Metop-C, JPSS-2 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 MW Spatial resolution: Swath width: Accuracy: Data Access: Data Format: Advanced DCS Advanced Data Collection System ROSHYDROMET (ROSKOSMOS) Current: - Future: Meteor-MP N1, Meteor-MP N2, Meteor-MP N3 Complete: - Proposed Data collection Collects data on temperature (air/water), atmospheric pressure, humidity and wind speed/direction, speed and direction of ocean and river currents Waveband: TBD Spatial resolution: Swath width: Accuracy: Data Access: Constrained Access Data Format: Advanced GGAK-M Advanced Module for Geophysical Measurements (SEM) ROSHYDROMET (ROSKOSMOS) Current: - Future: Meteor-MP N1, Meteor-MP N2, Meteor-MP N3 Complete: - Proposed Space environment and magnetic field Space Environmental Monitoring (SEM) Waveband: Spatial resolution: Swath width: Accuracy: Data Access: Constrained Access Data Format: Advanced GOCI Advanced Geostationary Ocean Colour Imager KARI (KORDI) Current: - Future: GeoKOMPSAT-2B Complete: - Proposed Ocean colour instruments Ocean colour information, coastal zone monitoring, land resources monitoring Waveband: VIS - NIR: 0.40 - 0.88 µm (8 channels) VIS, NIR Spatial resolution: 236m x 360m Best resolution: 236 m Swath width: 1440 km Accuracy: Data Access: Open Access Data Format: HDF, LRIT, HRIT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
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