CEOS EO HANDBOOK – CATALOGUE OF SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS Agency All --- AEM AGEOS ASI BELSPO CAST CDTI CNES COM CONAE CRESDA CSA CSIRO DLR ESA EUMETSAT GA GISTDA INPE ISRO JAXA JMA KARI KMA METI MYSA NASA NASRDA NIER NOAA NOSA NRSCC NSAU NSMC-CMA NSO POLSA ROSHYDROMET ROSKOSMOS SANSA SNSA TUBITAK UAE SA UKSA USGS VAST Keyword Filtering (max 20 char) Mission Status Current+Future Current Future Complete All Mission Name Instrument Status Operational+Future Operational Future All --- Approved Being developed No longer considered No longer operational Proposed TBD Instrument Name Type All --- Atmospheric chemistry Atmospheric temperature and humidity sounders Cloud profile and rain radars Communications Data collection Earth radiation budget radiometers Gravity instruments High resolution optical imagers Hyperspectral imagers Imaging microwave radars Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave) Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) In situ Lidars Lightning sensors Magnetic field Multiple direction/polarisation radiometers Ocean colour instruments Other Precision orbit Radar altimeters Scatterometers Space environment TBD Applications Technology All --- Absorption-band MW radiometer/spectrometer Atmospheric lidar Broad-band radiometer Cloud and precipitation radar Communications system Data collection system Doppler lidar Electric field sensor GNSS radio-occultation receiver GNSS receiver Gradiometer/accelerometer High resolution optical imager High-resolution nadir-scanning IR spectrometer High-resolution nadir-scanning SW spectrometer Imaging radar (SAR) Laser retroreflector Lidar altimeter Lightning imager Limb-scanning IR spectrometer Limb-scanning MW spectrometer Limb-scanning SW spectrometer Magnetometer Medium-resolution IR spectrometer Medium-resolution spectro-radiometer Multi-channel/direction/polarisation radiometer Multi-purpose imaging MW radiometer Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer Narrow-band channel IR radiometer Non-scanning MW radiometer Radar altimeter Radar scatterometer Radio-positioning system Satellite-to-satellite ranging system Solar irradiance monitor Space environment monitor Star tracker Spatial Resolution Best All --- < 1 m 1-10 m 10-100 m 100 m+ --- < 10 m < 100 m All Specified Waveband All --- UV (~0.01 µm - ~0.40 µm) VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) SWIR (~1.3 µm - ~3.0 µm) MWIR (~3.0 µm - ~6.0 µm) TIR (~6.0 µm - ~15.0 µm) FIR (~15.0 µm - ~0.1 cm) MW (~0.1 cm - ~100 cm) Ka-Band (26.5 to 40 GHz) K-Band (18 to 26.5 GHz) Ku-Band (12.5 to 18 GHz) X-Band (12.5 - 8 GHz) C-Band (8 - 4 GHz) S-Band (4 - 2 GHz) L-Band (2 - 1 GHz) P-Band (0.999 - 0.2998 GHz) W-Band (94 GHz) Data Access All --- Open Access Constrained Access Very Constrained Access No Access All Specified Display 10 25 50 All Results Per Page

Instrument Agency Missions Status Type Measurements & applications Technical characteristics ATLID ATmospheric LIDar ESA Current: - Future: EarthCARE Complete: - Approved Lidars Derivation of cloud and aerosol properties - Measurement of molecular and particle backscatter in Rayleigh, co-polar and cross-polar Mie channels. Waveband: Laser at 355 nm UV Spatial resolution: 300 m horizontal (TBC) Swath width: Accuracy: Data Access: Open Access Data Format: HDF5 BBR (EarthCARE) BroadBand Radiometer (EarthCARE) ESA Current: - Future: EarthCARE Complete: - Approved Earth radiation budget radiometers Top of the atmosphere radiances and radiative flux. Waveband: Shortwave channel: 0.2 - 4 µm, Total channel 0.2 - 50 µm UV, VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, TIR, FIR Spatial resolution: 10 x 10 km ground pixel size for each of the three views Swath width: Accuracy: flux retrieval accuracy 10 Wm-2 Data Access: Open Access Data Format: HDF5 BRLK S-range S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar ROSKOSMOS Current: Kondor-FKA N1 Future: Kondor-FKA N2 Complete: - Approved Imaging microwave radars Disaster monitoring, sea surface monitoring, information support of environmental managment Waveband: S-band S-Band Spatial resolution: 1-12 m Best resolution: 1 m Swath width: 10-100 km Accuracy: Data Access: Constrained Access Data Format: 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% Data Access: Data Format: COSIS COSIS DLR Current: - Future: CO2Image Complete: - Approved Atmospheric chemistry Independent verification of reported emissions as a cornerstone toward emission accounting and reduction measures such as agreed on in the Paris climate agreement. In 2018, coal-fired power plants accounted for 30% of the global man-made carbon dioxide emissions. Waveband: SWIR Spatial resolution: Swath width: 50m x 50 m Accuracy: Data Access: Open Access Data Format: FLORIS FLORIS 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 Accuracy: Data Access: Data Format: 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: Spatial resolution: Swath width: Accuracy: Data Access: Data Format: 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 Swath width: Accuracy: Data Access: Open Access Data Format: GEOTIF HSI Hyperspectral Imager DLR Current: EnMAP Future: - Complete: - Approved Hyperspectral imagers and imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/ir) Detailed monitoring and characterization of rock and soil targets, vegetation, inland and coastal waters on a global scale. Waveband: 420 - 2450 nm VIS, NIR, SWIR Spatial resolution: GSD 30 m Best resolution: 30 m Swath width: 30 km Accuracy: Radiometric: <5% Data Access: Open Access Data Format: IPDA LIDAR Integrated Path Differential Absorption Light Detection and Ranging Instrument DLR (CNES) Current: - Future: MERLIN Complete: - Approved Atmospheric chemistry 'Active' optical remote sensing instrument for atmospheric parameters or trace gases. Global information on atmospheric Methane concentration (Methane column density measurements). Waveband: Two laser wavelengths, mean wavelength 1645 µm SWIR Spatial resolution: 50 km x 0.1 km Swath width: 0.1 km Accuracy: <2% Data Access: Open Access Data Format: 1 2 3