PRISM Instrument

IdentifierprismNamesPanchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo MappingPRISM About identifiers

Measurements and Applications

High resolution panchromatic stereo imager for land applications which include cartography, digital terrain models, civil planning, agriculture and forestry.

Instrument Summary

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
Data Access
Data Format

Performance Summary

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)

Instrument Missions

ALOS - Advanced Land Observing Satellite (2006 - 2011) alos_prism

Instrument Measurements