Measurements and Applications
High resolution panchromatic stereo imager for land applications which include cartography, digital terrain models, civil planning, agriculture and forestry.
Full Name
Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Medium Heritage
Instrument Type
High resolution optical imagers 
Geometry
Push-broom scanning
Instrument Technology
High resolution optical imager
Sampling
Imaging
Resolution
2.5 m
[Best Resolution: 2.5m]
Swath
35 km (triplet stereo observations), 70 km (nadir observations+35 km backward)
[Max Swath: 70 km]
Accuracy
Surface Resolution:2.5 m
Radiometric: 3%RMS
Waveband
VIS - NIR: 0.52 - 0.77 µm (panchromatic)
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
ALOS - Advanced Land Observing Satellite (2006 - 2011) |