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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MEASUREMENT TIMELINE GENERATOR Display missions by Order by 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 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 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 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 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 BNSC CAST CDTI CNES CONAE CRESDA CSA CSIRO DLR EC ESA EUMETSAT GISTDA INPE ISRO JAXA JMA KARI METI NASA NASRDA NOAA NRSCC NSAU NSC ROSHYDROMET ROSKOSMOS SANSA SNSB TUBITAK USGS Launch Date + Series Collapsed Filter by Start year 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 Mission Status Current+Future Current Future Current+Approved Planned+Considered --- Currently being flown Approved Planned Considered End year 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 Measurement Confidence All --- Potential realized Potential expected Potential projected Experimental Total records: 57
Mission Status Instrument(s) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 ERS-2 Current ATSR-2 NOAA-15 Current AVHRR/3 Terra Current MISR, MODIS GOES-11 Current Sounder NOAA-16 Current AVHRR/3 SAC-C Current MMRS Odin Current OSIRIS GOES-12 Current Sounder Envisat Current AATSR, GOMOS, MERIS, SCIAMACHY Aqua Current MODIS NOAA-17 Current AVHRR/3 ICESat Current GLAS Aura Current HiRDLS, OMI PARASOL Current POLDER-P NOAA-18 Current AVHRR/3 CALIPSO Current CALIOP GOES-13 Current Sounder Metop-A Current AVHRR/3, GOME-2 NOAA-19 Current AVHRR/3 GOES-14 Current Sounder Meteor-M N1 Current MSU-MR SumbandilaSat Current SumbandilaSat Imager OCEANSAT-2 Current OCM Glory Approved APS GOES-P Approved Sounder NPP Approved OMPS, VIIRS Meteor-M N2 Approved MSU-MR OCEANSAT-3 Considered OCM (OCEANSAT-3) ISTAG Planned MAGIS PRISMA-I Approved HYC ADM-Aeolus Approved ALADIN EnMAP Planned HSI Metop-B Approved AVHRR/3, GOME-2 Sentinel-3 A Approved OLCI NPOESS-1 Approved OMPS, VIIRS EarthCARE Approved ATLID, MSI (EarthCARE) GCOM-C1 Planned SGLI Sentinel-5 precursor Planned UVNS (Sentinel-5 precursor) ICESat-II Planned GLAS Follow-on GOES-R Approved ABI Sentinel-3 B Planned OLCI NPOESS-2 Approved MIS, VIIRS Metop-C Approved AVHRR/3, GOME-2 GOES-S Approved ABI MTG-I1 (imaging) Approved FCI CLARREO Considered Solar reflected spectrometer (CLARREO) NPOESS-3 Approved MIS, OMPS, VIIRS GCOM-C2 Planned SGLI Sentinel-4 A Planned UVN (Sentinel-4) Sentinel-3 C Considered OLCI Sentinel-5 Planned UVNS (post-EPS) GEO-CAPE Considered UV/Vis Near IR Wide Imaging Spectrometer (Geo-Cape) ACE Considered HSRL (ACE), Next Gen APS (ACE) NPOESS-4 Approved MIS, VIIRS MTG-I2 (imaging) Approved FCI GCOM-C3 Planned SGLI MTG-I3 (imaging) Approved FCI
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