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MEASUREMENT TIMELINES -
Use the filters below to generate mission timelines based on measurement categories, detailed measurements, or by CEOS agency. Filter timelines by mission status and measurement utility and start and end year, and order the timeline by series.
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Measurement Categories
Aerosols
Albedo and reflectance
Atmospheric Humidity Fields
Atmospheric Temperature Fields
Atmospheric Winds
Cloud particle properties and profile
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature
Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements
Ice sheet topography
Landscape topography
Lightning Detection
Liquid water and precipitation rate
Multi-purpose imagery (land)
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)
Ocean colour/biology
Ocean Salinity
Ocean surface winds
Ocean topography/currents
Ocean wave height and spectrum
Ozone
Radiation budget
Sea ice cover, edge and thickness
Snow cover, edge and depth
Soil moisture
Surface temperature (land)
Surface temperature (ocean)
Trace gases (excluding ozone)
Vegetation
Launch Date
Detailed Measurements
Active Fire Detection
Aerosol absorption optical depth (column/profile)
Aerosol effective radius (column/profile)
Aerosol Extinction / Backscatter (column/profile)
Aerosol optical depth (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - BrO (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - C2H2 (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - C2H6 (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - CFC-11 (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - CFC-12 (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - CH2O (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - CH3Br (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - CH4 (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - CHOCHO (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - ClO (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - ClONO2 (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - CO (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - CO2 (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - COS (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - HCFC-22 (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - HCl (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - HDO (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - HNO3 (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - N2O (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - N2O5 (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - NO (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - NO2 (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - OClO (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - OH (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - PAN (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - PSC (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - SF6 (column/profile)
Atmospheric Chemistry - SO2 (column/profile)
Atmospheric pressure (over land surface)
Atmospheric pressure (over sea surface)
Atmospheric specific humidity (at surface)
Atmospheric specific humidity (column/profile)
Atmospheric stability index
Atmospheric temperature (at surface)
Atmospheric temperature (column/profile)
Bathymetry
Cloud base height
Cloud cover
Cloud drop size (at cloud top)
Cloud ice (column/profile)
Cloud ice content (at cloud top)
Cloud ice effective radius (column/profile)
Cloud imagery
Cloud liquid water (column/profile)
Cloud mask
Cloud optical depth
Cloud top height
Cloud top temperature
Cloud type
Color dissolved organic matter (CDOM)
Crustal Motion
Crustal plates positioning
Diffuse attenuation coefficient (DAC)
Dominant wave direction
Dominant wave period
Downwelling long-wave radiation at the Earth surface
Downwelling short-wave radiation at the Earth surface
Downwelling solar radiation at TOA
Earth surface albedo
Electron density profile
Fire area
Fire temperature
Fractionally absorbed PAR (FPAR)
Freezing level height
Geoid
Glacier cover
Glacier motion
Glacier topography
Gravity field
Gravity gradients
Height of the top of the Planetary Boundary Layer
Height of tropopause
Ice sheet topography
Iceberg fractional cover
Iceberg height
Lake Surface Height
Land cover
Land surface imagery
Land surface temperature
Land surface topography
Leaf Area Index (LAI)
Lightning detection
Long-wave cloud emissivity
Long-wave Earth surface emissivity
Magnetic field (scalar)
Magnetic field (vector)
Melting layer depth in clouds
Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI)
Ocean chlorophyll concentration
Ocean dynamic topography
Ocean imagery and water leaving radiance
Ocean salinity
Ocean surface currents (vector)
Ocean suspended sediment concentration
Oil spill cover
Outgoing long-wave radiation at Earth surface
Outgoing long-wave radiation at TOA
Outgoing short-wave radiation at TOA
Outgoing spectral radiance at TOA
Ozone profile
Permafrost
Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)
Precipitation index (daily cumulative)
Precipitation Profile (liquid or solid)
Precipitation rate (liquid) at the surface
Precipitation rate (solid) at the surface
Sea level
Sea surface temperature
Sea-ice cover
Sea-ice sheet topography
Sea-ice surface temperature
Sea-ice thickness
Sea-ice type
Short-wave cloud reflectance
Short-wave Earth surface bi-directional reflectance
Significant wave height
Snow albedo
Snow cover
Snow detection (mask)
Snow melting status (wet/dry)
Snow surface temperature
Snow water equivalent
Soil moisture at the surface
Soil moisture in the roots region
Soil type
Surface Coherent Change Detection
Temperature of tropopause
Total electron content (TEC)
Turbulence
Vegetation Canopy (cover)
Vegetation Canopy (height)
Vegetation Cover
Vegetation type
Visibility
Volcanic ash
Water vapour imagery
Wave directional energy frequency spectrum
Wind profile (horizontal)
Wind profile (vertical)
Wind speed over land surface (horizontal)
Wind speed over sea surface (horizontal)
Wind stress
Wind vector over land surface (horizontal)
Wind vector over sea surface (horizontal)
Launch Date + Series
Agency
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
Launch Date + Series Collapsed
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Mission Status
Current+Future
Current
Future
Current+Approved
Planned+Considered
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Currently being flown
Approved
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End year
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
2031
2032
2033
2034
Measurement Utility
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High Utility
General Utility
Potential Utility
Marginal Utility
Total records: 64
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