Measurements and Applications
Data on aerosols and ocean colour and biology. OrbView-2 is a commercial mission where NASA retains all rights to data for research purposes, while Orbital retains all rights for commercial and operational purposes.
Full Name
Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Ocean colour instruments 
Geometry
Instrument Technology
Medium-resolution spectro-radiometer
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Data Format
HDF
Resolution
1.1 km (local) and 4.4 km (global) at nadir
Accuracy
5% (absolute radiometric accuracy)
Waveband
VIS - NIR: 0.402 - 0.422 µm, 0.433 - 0.453 µm, 0.48 - 0.5 µm, 0.5 - 0.52 µm, 0.545 - 0.565 µm, 0.66 - 0.68 µm, 0.745 - 0.785 µm and 0.845 - 0.885 µm
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
OrbView-2 - OrbView-2 (1997 - 2010) |