Measurements and Applications
Vegetation and crop monitoring, resource assessment (regional scale), forest mapping, land cover/ land use mapping, and change detection.
Full Name
Advanced Wide Field Sensor
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) 
Geometry
Nadir-viewing
Instrument Technology
Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
Resolution
55 m
[Best Resolution: 55m]
Swath
740 km
[Max Swath: 740 km]
Waveband
VIS: 0.52 - 0.59 µm and 0.62 - 0.68 µm, NIR: 0.77 - 0.86 µm, SWIR: 1.55 - 1.7 µm
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
| SWIR (~1.3 µm - ~3.0 µm) |
RESOURCESAT-1 - Resource Satellite-1 (2003 - 2013) |
RESOURCESAT-2 - Resource Satellite-2 (2011 - 2025) |
AWiFSSAT - Advance Wide Field Sensor Satellite (2012 - 2016) |
| RESOURCESAT-2A - Resource Satellite-2A (2016 - 2025) |