Measurements and Applications
Earth resources, environmental monitoring, land use. WFI (Amazonia-1) is the same instrument as WFI (CBERS), however due to differences in orbital altitude, they have different spatial resolutions.
Full Name
Wide Field Imager (CBERS)
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Low Heritage
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
GEOTIFF
Resolution
64 m Nadir
[Best Resolution: 64m]
Swath
866 km
[Max Swath: 866 km]
Waveband
0.45 - 0.52 µm, 0.52 - 0.59 µm, 0.63 - 0.69 µm; 0.77 - 0.89 µm
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
CBERS-3 - China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite - 3 (2013 - 2013) |
CBERS-4 - China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite - 4 (2014 - 2025) |