| Instrument | Agency | Missions | Status | Type | Measurements &
applications | Technical characteristics |
AMR-CR
Advanced Microwave Radiometer for Climate | NASA (NOAA) (ESA) (EUMETSAT) | Current: -
Future: Sentinel CRISTAL-A, Sentinel CRISTAL-B, S3NGT-A, S3NGT-B
Complete: - | Approved | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave) | Capabilities of the AMR with the addition of an on-board calibrator for high stability wet-tropospheric path delay correction and a redesign with respect to AMR-C (i.e. the 3 high res MW radiometer channels at 90, 130 and 166 GHz are an integral subsystem of the instrument and not experimental as in AMR-C) |
| Waveband: | Low Frequency MW radiometer channels at 18.7, 23.8 and 34 GHz. With additional operational high-frequency channels (90, 130, 166 GHz) for high resolution complementing the SAR mode of IRIS radar.
MW, Ka-Band, K-Band |
| Spatial resolution: | 21 km at 18.7 GHz, 17 km at 23.8 GHz, 15 km at 34 GHz baseline channels, and with 5 km for 90 GHz , 4 km for 130 Ghz and 2 km for 166 GHz for the higher frequency operational channels
Best resolution: 2000 m |
| Swath width: | Nadir-only viewing associated to the CRISTAL IRIS altimeter |
| Accuracy: | TBD |
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Avrora-T
Opto-electronic equipment | ROSKOSMOS | Current: -
Future: Aist-2T N1, Aist-2T N2
Complete: - | Approved | High resolution optical imagers | Multispectral and panchromatic images of land & sea surfaces and ice cover. |
| Waveband: | 1 panchromatic band (0.58 - 0.8 µm). 0.45 - 0.52 µm; 0.53-0.6 µm; 0.63-0.69 µm
VIS |
| Spatial resolution: | 1.2m-3,6m
Best resolution: 1.2 m |
| Swath width: | 30km |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
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CAR
High Resolution Camera | CONAE | Current: -
Future: SARE-2A (S1), SARE-2A (S2), SARE-2A (S3), SARE-2A (S4)
Complete: - | Approved | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Panchromatic and multispectral (Vis/IR) measurements with high spatial resolution, with stereo capability for DEM generation. Applications in emergencies in general, agriculture, land use/land cover, change detection, urban environment, cartography, topography. |
| Waveband: | Panchromatic band
- P: 450-900 nm
Vis/IR bands
- B1: 450-520 nm
- B2: 520-590 nm
- B3: 630-690 nm
- B4: 770-890 nm
VIS, NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | Panchromatic band: 1 m
Vis/IR bands: 4 m
Best resolution: 1 m |
| Swath width: | 12 km |
| Accuracy: | Absolute radiometric accuracy: 5% |
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CLIM
3-band CLoud Imager | ESA (EUMETSAT) (COM) | Current: -
Future: Sentinel CO2M-A, Sentinel CO2M-B, Sentinel CO2M-C
Complete: - | Approved | Atmospheric chemistry | 3-band cloud pushbroom imager for detecting low and high clouds in the spatial sample of CO2I allowing to remove these data from the retrieval process. |
| Waveband: | 3 bands: 670, 752, 1370 nm
VIS, SWIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 400 m |
| Swath width: | 465km |
| Accuracy: | SNR >= 200 in the 3 spectral bands |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
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CO2I
Integrated CO2 & NO2 Imaging spectrometer | ESA (EUMETSAT) (COM) | Current: -
Future: Sentinel CO2M-A, Sentinel CO2M-B, Sentinel CO2M-C
Complete: - | Approved | Atmospheric chemistry | Pushbroom scanning spectrometer to provide relatively high spatial resolution CO2, CH4 and NO2 observations in support of estimating anthropogenic emissions of CO2 and CH4 in Copernicus. In addition, high quality NO2 and solar-induced fluorescence will be operationally delivered. |
| Waveband: | For CO2: TOA radiance measures in NIR (747-773nm), SWIR1 (1590-1675nm), SWIR2 (1990-2095nm). For NO2: VIS (405-490nm)
VIS, NIR, SWIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 2 km
Best resolution: 2000 m |
| Swath width: | 250km |
| Accuracy: | CO2 precision=0,7ppm, CH4 precision=10 ppb, NO2 precision 1.5 10e15 molec/cm2 |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
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FLORIS
Fluorescence Imaging Spectrometer | ESA | Current: -
Future: FLEX
Complete: - | Approved | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Mapping vegetation fluorescence to quantify photosynthetic activity. |
| Waveband: | Several bands of the range 500-780 nm, with two types of spectral resolution: Low (1-2 nm) and High (0.1-0.5 nm)
VIS, NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | High spectral resolution of ~0.3 nm around the Oxygen absorption bands. Other spectral areas with less pronounced absorption features will be measured at medium spectral resolution between 0.5 and 3 nm.
Best resolution: 300 m |
| Swath width: | 150 km swath |
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Fourier Transform Spectrometer
Fourier Transform Spectrometer | ESA | Current: -
Future: FORUM
Complete: - | Approved | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Measure across Earth’s entire far-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum |
| Waveband: |
FIR |
| Spatial resolution: | |
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| Data Access: | Open Access |
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GHMI
Geostationary HiMawari Imager | JMA | Current: -
Future: Himawari-10
Complete: - | Approved | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | |
| Waveband: | 18 bands from 0.47 µm to 13.3 µm
VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, TIR |
| Spatial resolution: | |
| Swath width: | Full disk, Japan Area : fixed area, four Target Areas and one Landmark Area : flexible area |
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GHMS
Geostationary HiMawari Sounder | JMA | Current: -
Future: Himawari-10
Complete: - | Approved | Atmospheric temperature and humidity sounders | |
| Waveband: | LWIR: 680 - 1095 cm^-1
MWIR: 1689 - 2250 cm^-1
MWIR, TIR |
| Spatial resolution: | |
| Swath width: | Full disk, Japan Area : fixed area, one Target Area : flexible area |
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High Resolution Optical Sensor (CAS500-2)
High Resolution Optical Sensor (CAS500-2) | KAI (NGII) (KARI) | Current: -
Future: CAS500-2
Complete: - | Approved | High resolution optical imagers | Cartography, land use and planning |
| Waveband: |
VIS, NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 1m
Best resolution: 1 m |
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| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | GEOTIF |
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