| Instrument | Agency | Missions | Status | Type | Measurements &
applications | Technical characteristics |
ABI
Advanced Baseline Imager | NOAA | Current: GOES-19, GOES-18, GOES-16, GOES-17
Future: -
Complete: - | Operational | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Detects clouds, cloud properties, water vapour, land and sea surface temperatures, dust, aerosols, volcanic ash, fires, total ozone, snow and ice cover, vegetation index. |
| Waveband: | 16 bands in VIS, NIR and IR ranging from 0.47 µm to 13.3 µm
VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, TIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 0.5 km in 0.64 µm band; 2.0 km in long wave IR and in the 1.378 µm band; 1.0 km in all others
Best resolution: 500 m |
| Swath width: | |
| Accuracy: | Varies by product |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | NetCDF-4 |
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Advanced GOCI
Advanced Geostationary Ocean Colour Imager | KARI, KIOST (ADS) | Current: GEO-KOMPSAT-2B
Future: -
Complete: - | Operational | Ocean colour instruments | Ocean colour information, coastal zone monitoring, land resources monitoring. |
| Waveband: | VIS - NIR: 0.40 - 0.88 µm (12 channels)
VIS, NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 236 x 360 m
Best resolution: 236 m |
| Swath width: | FOR (Field Of Regard) is 2500km x 2500km, divided into 12 slots. |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | HDF, LRIT, HRIT |
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AMI
Advanced Meteorological Imager | KMA (KARI) | Current: GEO-KOMPSAT-2A
Future: -
Complete: - | Operational | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Continuous monitoring capability for the near real-time generation of high-resolution meteorological products and long-term change analysis of land/sea surface temperature and cloud coverage. |
| Waveband: | 16 bands covering 1: VIS, 0.55 - 0.80 µm; 2: SWIR: 3.50 - 4.00 µm; 3: WV (Waver Vapour): 6.50 - 7.00 µm; 4: TIR1 (Thermal Infrared 1): 10.3 - 11.3 µm, 5: TIR2 (Thermal Infrared 2): 11.5 - 12.5 µm
VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, TIR |
| Spatial resolution: | VIS: 0.5 km, 1 km
NIR: 1 km
SWIR, MWIR, TIR: 2 km
Best resolution: 500 m |
| Swath width: | Full Earth disk |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | NetCDF, LRIT, HRIT, UHRIT |
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AVHRR/3
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 | EUMETSAT, NOAA | Current: Metop-B, Metop-C
Future: -
Complete: Metop-A, NOAA-16, NOAA-17, NOAA-18, NOAA-19, NOAA-15 | Operational | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Measurements of land and sea surface temperature, cloud cover, snow and ice cover, soil moisture and vegetation indices. Data also used for volcanic eruption monitoring. |
| Waveband: | VIS: 0.58 - 0.68 µm, NIR: 0.725 - 1.1 µm, SWIR: 1.58 - 1.64 µm, MWIR: 3.55 - 3.93 µm, TIR: 10.3 - 11.3 µm, 11.5 - 12.5 µm
VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, TIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 1.1 km
Best resolution: 1100 m |
| Swath width: | 3000 km approx, Ensures full global coverage twice daily |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | Native, BUFR |
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AWiFS
Advanced Wide Field Sensor | ISRO | Current: RESOURCESAT-2, RESOURCESAT-2A | Operational | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Vegetation and crop monitoring, resource assessment (regional scale), forest mapping, land cover/ land use mapping, and change detection. |
| 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, NIR, SWIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 55 m
Best resolution: 55 m |
| Swath width: | 740 km |
| Accuracy: | 10 bit data |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | |
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CIRC
Compact InfraRed Camera | JAXA | Current: ALOS-2
Future: -
Complete: - | Operational | Other | Active fire detection. Land surface temperature. |
| Waveband: | TIR: 8 - 12 µm
TIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 210m
Best resolution: 210 m |
| Swath width: | 128 km |
| Accuracy: | 0.2 K@300 K |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | GeoTIFF |
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EPIC
Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera | NASA (NOAA) | Current: DSCOVR
Future: -
Complete: - | Operational | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Provides global spectral images of the entire sunlit face of Earth and insight into Earth's energy balance. EPIC's observations will provide a unique angular perspective, and will be used in science applications to measure ozone amounts, aerosol amounts, cloud height and phase, vegetation properties, hotspot land properties and UV radiation estimates of Earth's surface. |
| Waveband: | 317 - 780 nm in 10 channels
UV, VIS, NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 10-20 km
Best resolution: 25000 m |
| Swath width: | Whole Earth |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | |
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FCI
Flexible Combined Imager | EUMETSAT (ESA) | Current: Meteosat-12, MTG-I2 (imaging)
Future: MTG-I3 (imaging), MTG-I4 (imaging)
Complete: - | Operational | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Measurements of cloud cover, cloud top height, precipitation, cloud motion, vegetation, radiation fluxes, convection, air mass analysis, cirrus cloud discrimination, tropopause monitoring, stability monitoring, total ozone and sea surface temperature. |
| Waveband: | VIS0.4=0.414 - 0.474 µm, VIS0.5=0.49 - 0.53 µm, VIS0.6=0.615 - 0.665 µm, VIS0.8=0.84 - 0.89 µm, VIS0.9=0.904 - 0.924 µm, NIR1.3=1.365 - 1.395 µm, NIR1.6=1.585 - 1.635 µm, NIR2.2=2.225 - 2.275 µm, IR3.8=3.6 - 4 µm, WV6.3=5.8 - 6.8 µm, WV7.3=7.1 - 7.6 µm, I
VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, TIR |
| Spatial resolution: | VIS0.4=1.0 km, VIS0.5=1.0 km, VIS0.6=1.0 km & 0.5 km, VIS0.8=1.0 km, VIS0.9=1.0 km, NIR1.3=1.0 km, NIR1.6=1.0 km, NIR2.2=1.0 km & 0.5 km, IR3.8=2.0 km & 1.0 km, WV6.3=2.0 km, WV7.3=2.0 km, IR8.7=2.0 km, IR9.7=2.0 km, IR10.5=2.0 km & 1.0 km, IR12.3=2.0 km,
Best resolution: 500 m |
| Swath width: | 210 km swath moved alternately W-E and E-W, moving up S-N a swath width at the end of each swath. Full Disc Coverage (FDC) or Local Area Coverage (LAC) possible. |
| Accuracy: | Cloud cover: 10%, Cloud top height: 1 km, Cloud top temperature: 1 K, Cloud type: 8 classes, Surface temperature: 0.7-2.0K, Specific humidity profile: 10%, Wind profile (horizontal component): 2 - 10 m/s, Long wave Earth surface radiation: 5 W/m2 |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | NetCDF, BUFR (subset) |
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GHI-1
Geostationary High-speed Imager-1 | NSMC-CMA (CNSA) | Current: FY-4B
Future: -
Complete: - | Operational | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | The primary objective of the Geosynchronous High-speed Imager (GHI) is to achieve imaging capabilities over a 2000 × 1800 km² area from geostationary orbit, with higher spatial resolution and a temporal resolution of less than 1 minute. |
| Waveband: | 0.45-0.75μm，0.445-0.495μm，0.52-0.57μm，0.62-0.67μm，1.371-1.386μm，1.58-1.64μm，10.3-12.5μm
NIR, SWIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 75m\375m
Best resolution: 75 m |
| Swath width: | Using a dual‑mirror independent scanning design, the two mirrors move the main optical axis in east‑west and north‑south directions respectively to scan selected areas of the Earth. |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | L-1 data: HDF 5.0 |
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Imager
Imager | NOAA | Current: EWS-G3, EWS-G2 | Operational | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Measures cloud cover, atmospheric radiance, winds, atmospheric stability, rainfall estimates. Used to provide severe storm warnings/ monitoring day and night (type, amount, storm features). |
| Waveband: | GOES 8 - 11: VIS: 1 channel (8 detectors), IR: 4 channels: 3.9 µm, 6.7 µm, 10.7 µm and 12 µm, GOES 12 - Q: VIS: 1 channel (8 detectors), IR: 4 channels: 3.9 µm, 6.7 µm, 10.7 µm and 13.3 µm
VIS, MWIR, TIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 10 km
Best resolution: 10000 m |
| Swath width: | Full Earth disk |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | NetCDF, RAW, GIF, JPEG, etc. |
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