| Instrument | Agency | Missions | Status | Type | Measurements &
applications | Technical characteristics |
ABI-5
Advanced Baseline Imager - 5 | NOAA | Current: -
Future: GeoXO-1
Complete: - | Being developed | 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
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| 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 |
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| Accuracy: | Varies by product |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | NetCDF-4 |
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ACGS-2
Atmospheric Carbon dioxide Grating Spectrometer - 2 | NSMC-CMA | Current: -
Future: TANSat-2
Complete: - | Being developed | Atmospheric chemistry | CO2 and CH4 monitoring. |
| Waveband: | 0.757-0.771 um, 1.590-1.620 um, 2.042-2.082 um, 1.635-1.670 um
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| Spatial resolution: | 2 X 2 km
Best resolution: 2000 m |
| Swath width: | 2900 km |
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ADS-B
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast | PhilSA | Current: -
Future: MULA
Complete: - | Being developed | Data collection | Passive sensors to receive aircraft information |
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ADS-B receiver (rebuild)
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast receiver | GISTDA | Current: -
Future: THEOS-2A (Rebuild)
Complete: - | Being developed | Communications | Receiver intended to log Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) signals from aircraft transponders for aviation tracking/situational awareness, complementing the AIS receiver. |
| Waveband: | 1090 MHz
Comms (RF) |
| Spatial resolution: | |
| Swath width: | 400km |
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ADS-B receiver (THEOS-3)
ADS-B receiver (THEOS-3) | GISTDA | Current: -
Future: THEOS-3
Complete: - | Being developed | Communications | Receiver intended to log Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) signals from aircraft transponders for aviation tracking/situational awareness, complementing the AIS receiver. |
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Comms (RF) |
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AEISS-HR-A
Advanced Electronic Image Scanning System-High Resolution-A | KARI | Current: -
Future: KOMPSAT-7A
Complete: - | Being developed | High resolution optical imagers | High resolution imager for land applications of cartography and disaster monitoring |
| Waveband: | Panchromatic VIS: 0.50 - 0.90 µm, VIS: 0.45 - 0.52 µm, 0.52 - 0.60 µm, 0.63 - 0.69 µm, NIR: 0.76 - 0.90 µm
VIS, NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | Pan:0.5 m, VNIR: 2m
Best resolution: 0.5 m |
| Swath width: | 15 km |
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AIRMO Spectrometer
AIRMO Spectrometer | AIRMO (ESA) | Current: -
Future: AIRMO Constellation
Complete: - | Being developed | Atmospheric chemistry | Precise and close to real-time data on CH4 and CO2 emissions |
| Waveband: | Central wavelength: 1.6 μm
SWIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 50 m x 50 m
Best resolution: 50 m |
| Swath width: | |
| Accuracy: | 8ppb |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
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AIS
Automatic Identification System | PhilSA | Current: -
Future: MULA
Complete: - | Being developed | Data collection | Passive sensors to receive ship information |
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AIS receiver (rebuild)
Automatic Identification System receiver | GISTDA | Current: -
Future: THEOS-2A (Rebuild)
Complete: - | Being developed | Communications | Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver intended to log vessel AIS signals for maritime vessel identification and situational awareness. |
| Waveband: | AIS: 161.975 - 162.025 MHz
Comms (RF) |
| Spatial resolution: | |
| Swath width: | 4900km |
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ALI
Aerosol Limb Imager | CSA (NASA) (ECCC) (USask) (UQAM) | Current: -
Future: HAWC
Complete: - | Being developed | High resolution optical imagers | Measures profiles of aerosol extinction and effective radius in the mid-upper troposphere and stratosphere in limb viewing geometry using scattered sunlight in narrow spectral bands in the visible and near infrared. |
| Waveband: | 10 bands in the 610 - 1560 nm wavelength range
VIS, NIR, SWIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 0.25 km vertical resolution |
| Swath width: | 200 km swath |
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| Data Access: | Open Access |
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