| Instrument | Agency | Missions | Status | Type | Measurements &
applications | Technical characteristics |
3MI
Multi-Viewing Multi-Channel Multi-Polarisation Imaging | EUMETSAT (ESA) | Current: -
Future: METOP-SG A1, METOP-SG A2, METOP-SG A3
Complete: - | Being developed | Atmospheric chemistry | Measure aerosol parameters, air quality index, surface albedo, cloud information |
| Waveband: | VIS-SWIR: 12 channels between 0.41 µm to 2.1 µm
VIS, NIR, SWIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 4km |
| Swath width: | 2200x2200 km for the VNIR channels
2200 x 1100 km for the SWIR channels
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| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | net-CDF4 |
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AEISS-HR
Advanced Electronic Image Scanning System-High Resolution | KARI (KAI) | Current: -
Future: KOMPSAT-7
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 |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Very Constrained Access |
| Data Format: | GEOTIF |
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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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| Data Access: | |
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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: | |
| Spatial resolution: | 50 m x 50 m
Best resolution: 50 m |
| Swath width: | |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | |
| Data Format: | |
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ALI
Aerosol Limb Imager | CSA (NASA) (ECCC) (USask) (UQAM) | Current: -
Future: HAWCSat
Complete: - | Being developed | High resolution optical imagers | provide high quality atmospheric profiles of aerosol and cloud information |
| 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 |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | TBD |
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ALICAT
Atmospheric Lidar for Clouds and Aerosol Transport | NASA | Current: -
Future: AOS-Storm
Complete: - | Being developed | Lidars | Atmospheric lidar for profiling of aerosols and thin ice clouds over varying times of day |
| Waveband: | 532 nm (polarization-sensitive), 1064 nm (polarization sensitive), VIS - NIR
VIS, NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 100 m horizontal, 30 m vertical |
| Swath width: | Nadir only |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | TBD |
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ALISS III
Advanced LISS III | ISRO | Current: -
Future: RESOURCESAT-3, RESOURCESAT-3A
Complete: - | Being developed | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | For crops and vegetation dynamics, natural resources census, disaster management and large scale mapping of themes. |
| Waveband: | 4 bands in VNIR and 1 band in SWIR
VIS, NIR, SWIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 20 m, 10 m
Best resolution: 10 m |
| Swath width: | 925 km |
| Accuracy: | 200m |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
| Data Format: | |
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ALTIUS Instrument
ALTIUS Instrument | ESA | Current: -
Future: ALTIUS
Complete: - | Being developed | Atmospheric chemistry | A high-resolution 2D imager that observes ozone from side-on, at Earth's limb or atmospheric boundary. This limb-sounding technique allows ozone to be viewed at different altitudes, thereby providing vertical profiles of different ozone concentrations. The instrument uses three independent spectral imagers that operate in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared, achieving global coverage in a three-day revisit cycle. |
| Waveband: |
UV, VIS, NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | |
| Swath width: | |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | |
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AMR-S
AMR-S Two-Beam Microwave Radiometer | NASA (UKSA) (CNES) (CSA) | Current: SWOT
Future: -
Complete: - | Being developed | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave) | Capabilities of the AMR with the addition of a 2nd beam to provide wet-tropospheric path delay correction within both swaths of the primary radar instrument (KaRIn) |
| Waveband: | Microwave: 18.7, 23.8 and 34 GHz.
MW |
| Spatial resolution: | 41.6 km at 18.7 GHz, 36.1 km at 23.8 GHz, 22.9 km at 34 GHz baseline channels
Best resolution: 22 m |
| Swath width: | two nadir-looking beams complementing the 120Km KaRIn radar altimeter swath |
| Accuracy: | Total water vapour: 0.2 g/sq cm, Brightness temperature: 0.15 K for each of the two beams |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | NetCDF-4 |
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AMSR3
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 3 | JAXA | Current: -
Future: GOSAT-GW
Complete: - | Being developed | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave) | Measurements of water vapour, cloud liquid water, precipitation including snowfall, winds, sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration, snow cover, soil moisture. |
| Waveband: | Microwave: 6.925 GHz, 7.3 GHz, 10.25 GHz, 10.65 GHz, 18.7 GHz, 23.8 GHz, 36.5 GHz, 89.0 GHz, 165.5 GHz, 183.3 GHz
MW |
| Spatial resolution: | 5 - 50 km (dependent on frequency) |
| Swath width: | 1535 km (effective swath) |
| Accuracy: | Target and standard accuracies for each standard product were defined from user requirements. |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | NetCDF |
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