| Instrument | Agency | Missions | Status | Type | Measurements &
applications | Technical characteristics |
ATLID
ATmospheric LIDar | ESA | Current: -
Future: EarthCARE
Complete: - | Approved | Lidars | Derivation of cloud and aerosol properties - Measurement of molecular and particle backscatter in Rayleigh, co-polar and cross-polar Mie channels. |
| Waveband: | Laser at 355 nm
UV |
| Spatial resolution: | 300 m horizontal (TBC) |
| Swath width: | |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | HDF5 |
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BBR (EarthCARE)
BroadBand Radiometer (EarthCARE) | ESA | Current: -
Future: EarthCARE
Complete: - | Approved | Earth radiation budget radiometers | Top of the atmosphere radiances and radiative flux. |
| Waveband: | Shortwave channel: 0.2 - 4 µm, Total channel 0.2 - 50 µm
UV, VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, TIR, FIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 10 x 10 km ground pixel size for each of the three views |
| Swath width: | |
| Accuracy: | flux retrieval accuracy 10 Wm-2 |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | HDF5 |
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BRLK S-range
S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar | ROSKOSMOS | Current: -
Future: Kondor-FKA N1, Kondor-FKA N2
Complete: - | Approved | Imaging microwave radars | Disaster monitoring, sea surface monitoring, information support of environmental managment |
| Waveband: | S-band
S-Band |
| Spatial resolution: | 1-12 m
Best resolution: 1 m |
| Swath width: | 10-100 km |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
| Data Format: | |
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BRLK X-range
X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar | ROSKOSMOS | Current: -
Future: Obzor-R N1, Obzor-R N2
Complete: - | Approved | Imaging microwave radars | Disaster monitoring, sea surface monitoring, information support of environmental managment |
| Waveband: | X-band
X-Band |
| Spatial resolution: | 1-500 m
Best resolution: 1 m |
| Swath width: | 10-750 km |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
| Data Format: | |
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CAR
High Resolution Camera | CONAE | Current: -
Future: SARE-2A (S1), SARE-2A (S2), SARE-2A (S3), SARE-2A (S4)
Complete: - | Approved | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Panchromatic and multispectral (Vis/IR) measurements with high spatial resolution, with stereo capability for DEM generation. Applications in emergencies in general, agriculture, land use/land cover, change detection, urban environment, cartography, topography. |
| Waveband: | Panchromatic band
- P: 450-900 nm
Vis/IR bands
- B1: 450-520 nm
- B2: 520-590 nm
- B3: 630-690 nm
- B4: 770-890 nm
VIS, NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | Panchromatic band: 1 m
Vis/IR bands: 4 m
Best resolution: 1 m |
| Swath width: | 12 km |
| Accuracy: | Absolute radiometric accuracy: 5% |
| Data Access: | |
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CSG SAR
COSMO-SkyMed di Seconda Generazione SAR | ASI (MoD (Italy)) | Current: -
Future: CSG-1, CSG-2
Complete: - | Approved | Imaging microwave radars | All-weather images of ocean, land and ice for monitoring of land surface processes, ice, environmental monitoring, risk management, environmental resources, maritime management, Earth topographic mapping. |
| Waveband: | Microwave: X-band (9.6 GHz) single-, dual- and quad- polarization
X-Band |
| Spatial resolution: | [range x azimuth]
Spotlight: 0.5x0.35 or 0.63x0.63 m (Single/Dual pol),
Stripmap: 3x3 m (Single/Dual/Quad pol), ScanSAR: 4x20 or 6x40 m (Single/Dual pol)
Best resolution: 0.35 m |
| Swath width: | 'Dual polarisation modes: Spotlight [range x azimuth]: 7.3x3.1 or 10x10 km, Stripmap: 40 km, ScanSAR: 100 or 200 km.
Quad polarisation mode: 15 km. |
| Accuracy: | - |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
| Data Format: | HDF5,
GeoTiff,
GML JPEG2000,
STANAG 4545 |
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ERM-2
Improved Earth Radiation Measurement | NRSCC (NSMC-CMA) (CNSA) (CAST) | Current: -
Future: FY-3E, FY-3H, FY-3G
Complete: - | Approved | Earth radiation budget radiometers | Measures Earth radiation gains and losses on regional, zonal and global scales. |
| Waveband: | |
| Spatial resolution: | |
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| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
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FLORIS
FLORIS | ESA | Current: -
Future: FLEX
Complete: - | Approved | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Mapping vegetation fluorescence to quantify photosynthetic activity. |
| Waveband: | Several bands of the range 500-780 nm, with two types of spectral resolution: Low (1-2 nm) and High (0.1-0.5 nm)
VIS, NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | High spectral resolution of ~0.3 nm around the Oxygen absorption bands. Other spectral areas with less pronounced absorption features will be measured at medium spectral resolution between 0.5 and 3 nm.
Best resolution: 300 m |
| Swath width: | 150 km swath |
| Accuracy: | |
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GGAK-VE
Module for Geophysical Measurements | ROSKOSMOS | Current: -
Future: Arctica-M N1, Arctica-M N2, Arctica-M N3, Arctica-M N4, Arctica-M N5
Complete: - | Approved | Space environment | Monitoring and forecasting of solar activity, radiation and magnetic field in the near-Earth space, monitoring of natural and modified magnetosphere, ionosphere and upper atmosphere. |
| Waveband: | |
| Spatial resolution: | |
| Swath width: | |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
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GSA (2)
Hyperspectral imaging equipment | ROSKOSMOS | Current: -
Future: Resurs-PM N1
Complete: - | Approved | Other | Land surface monitoring |
| Waveband: | >130 bands - 400 - 1000 nm
100 bands - 1300 - 2500 nm
60 bands - 3000 - 12000 nm
VIS, NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 25 - 30 m
Best resolution: 25 m |
| Swath width: | 25-30 km |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
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