CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- ALOS-3
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Full Name
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Advanced Land Observing Satellite-3
aka DAICHI-3
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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JAXA
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Launch Date
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07 Mar 2023
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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07 Mar 2023
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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International Designator
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Orbit Type
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Sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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98 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Descending
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Orbit Inclination
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98.1 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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669 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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10:30
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Repeat Cycle
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35 days
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Objectives and Applications
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Disaster monitoring, coastal and land environmental monitoring, the maintenance and updates of precise geospatial information. Mission instruments will be Optical Sensors (Pan, Multi).
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Mission Measurements
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| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Atmosphere | Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature | OPS (Pan, Multi) |
| Land | Albedo and reflectance | OPS (Pan, Multi) |
| Vegetation | OPS (Pan, Multi) |
| Multi-purpose imagery (land) | OPS (Pan, Multi) |
| Ocean | Ocean colour/biology | OPS (Pan, Multi) |
| Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) | OPS (Pan, Multi) |
| Snow & Ice | Snow cover, edge and depth | OPS (Pan, Multi) |
| Sea ice cover, edge and thickness | OPS (Pan, Multi) |
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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No IDN OpenSearch datasets found.
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