| Instrument | Agency | Missions | Status | Type | Measurements &
applications | Technical characteristics |
AMR-CR
Advanced Microwave Radiometer for Climate | NASA (NOAA) (ESA) (EUMETSAT) | Current: -
Future: Sentinel CRISTAL-A, Sentinel CRISTAL-B, S3NGT-A, S3NGT-B
Complete: - | Approved | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave) | Capabilities of the AMR with the addition of an on-board calibrator for high stability wet-tropospheric path delay correction and a redesign with respect to AMR-C (i.e. the 3 high res MW radiometer channels at 90, 130 and 166 GHz are an integral subsystem of the instrument and not experimental as in AMR-C) |
| Waveband: | Low Frequency MW radiometer channels at 18.7, 23.8 and 34 GHz. With additional operational high-frequency channels (90, 130, 166 GHz) for high resolution complementing the SAR mode of IRIS radar.
MW, Ka-Band, K-Band |
| Spatial resolution: | 21 km at 18.7 GHz, 17 km at 23.8 GHz, 15 km at 34 GHz baseline channels, and with 5 km for 90 GHz , 4 km for 130 Ghz and 2 km for 166 GHz for the higher frequency operational channels
Best resolution: 2 m |
| Swath width: | Nadir-only viewing associated to the CRISTAL IRIS altimeter |
| Accuracy: | TBD |
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ATLID
ATmospheric LIDar | ESA | Current: EarthCARE
Future: -
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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Avrora-T
Opto-electronic equipment | ROSKOSMOS | Current: -
Future: Aist-2T N1, Aist-2T N2
Complete: - | Approved | High resolution optical imagers | Multispectral and panchromatic images of land & sea surfaces and ice cover. |
| Waveband: | 1 panchromatic band (0.58 - 0.8 µm). 0.45 - 0.52 µm; 0.53-0.6 µm; 0.63-0.69 µm
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| Spatial resolution: | 1.2m-3,6m
Best resolution: 1.2 m |
| Swath width: | 30km |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
| Data Format: | |
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BBR (EarthCARE)
BroadBand Radiometer (EarthCARE) | ESA | Current: EarthCARE
Future: -
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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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% |
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COSIS
COSIS | DLR | Current: -
Future: CO2Image
Complete: - | Approved | Atmospheric chemistry | Independent verification of reported emissions as a cornerstone toward emission accounting and reduction measures such as agreed on in the Paris climate agreement. In 2018, coal-fired power plants accounted for 30% of the global man-made carbon dioxide emissions. |
| Waveband: |
SWIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 50 m x 50 m
Best resolution: 50 m |
| Swath width: | 50 km x 50 km |
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| Data Access: | Open Access |
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ESIP
Ionospheric plasma energy spectrometer | ROSKOSMOS | Current: Ionosphera-M N1, Ionosphera-M N2
Future: Ionosphera-M N3, Ionosphera-M N4
Complete: - | Approved | Space environment | Measurement of local parameters of ionospheric plasma |
| Waveband: | measurement range (102 - 107) cm-3, electron temperature measurement range (0.1 - 5.0) eV
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| Spatial resolution: | |
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| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
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FLORIS
Fluorescence Imaging Spectrometer | 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 |
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Fourier Transform Spectrometer
Fourier Transform Spectrometer | ESA | Current: -
Future: FORUM
Complete: - | Approved | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Measure across Earth’s entire far-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum |
| Waveband: |
FIR |
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| Data Access: | Open Access |
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GALS
Spectrometer of galactic cosmic rays | ROSKOSMOS | Current: Ionosphera-M N1, Ionosphera-M N2
Future: Ionosphera-M N3, Ionosphera-M N4
Complete: - | Approved | Space environment | Measurement of the proton flux density |
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| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
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