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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- IRS-P3
-
Full Name
Indian Remote Sensing Satellite - P3
Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
ISRO
Launch Date
21 Mar 1996
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
31 Dec 2003
EO Portal Info
NORAD Catalog #
23827
(
TLE
)
International Designator
1996-017A
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
101.35 minutes
Orbit Sense
Descending
Orbit Inclination
98.7 deg
Orbit Altitude
817 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
10:30
Repeat Cycle
24 days
Objectives and Applications
Ocean biology, physical oceanography, land surface, agriculture and forestry, water resources, vegetation and coastal studies.
Mission Measurements
Category
Parameter
Instrument(s)
Atmosphere
Aerosols
MOS
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature
MOS
Land
Albedo and reflectance
WiFS
Landscape topography
WiFS
Vegetation
WiFS
Multi-purpose imagery (land)
WiFS
Ocean
Ocean colour/biology
MOS
Snow & Ice
Snow cover, edge and depth
WiFS
Mission Instruments
MOS - Modular Opto-electronic Scanner
WiFS - Wide Field Sensor
X-ray astronomy payload - X-ray astronomy payload
OpenSearch Datasets
Selected IDN OpenSearch Results
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)
Data Products for the Indian Remote Sensing Satellites
Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate (EPIC) at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
IRS WiFS data of HinduKush-Himalayan Region
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