| 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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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 |
| Swath width: | |
| Accuracy: | Varies by product |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | NetCDF-4 |
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Advanced KMSS
Advanced Multispectral Imager (VIS) | ROSHYDROMET | Current: -
Future: Meteor-MP N1, Meteor-MP N2, Meteor-MP N3
Complete: - | No longer considered | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Multispectral images of land & sea surfaces and ice cover. |
| Waveband: | 0.4 - 0.9 µm, 6 channels
VIS, NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 60 m - 100 m
Best resolution: 60 m |
| Swath width: | 900 km |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
| Data Format: | |
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Advanced MSU-MR
Advanced Multispectral scanning imager-radiometer | ROSHYDROMET | Current: -
Future: Meteor-MP N1, Meteor-MP N2, Meteor-MP N3
Complete: - | Proposed | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Parameters of clouds, snow, ice and land cover, vegetation, surface temperature, fire detection. |
| Waveband: | VIS: 0.5 - 0.7 µm; NIR: 0.7 - 1.1 µm; SWIR: 1.6 - 1.8 µm; MWIR: 3.5 - 4.1 µm; TIR: 10.5 - 11.5 µm, 11.5 - 12.5 µm
VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, TIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 1 km
Best resolution: 1000 m |
| Swath width: | 3000 km |
| Accuracy: | VIS: 0.5%; IR: 0.1 - 0.2 K |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | |
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AGRI
Advanced Geostationary Radiation Imager | NSMC-CMA (CNSA) | Current: FY-4B, FY-4C
Future: FY-4D, FY-4E, FY-4F, FY-4A
Complete: - | Operational | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | A multiple-channel radiation imager, one of the primary instruments aboard FY-4. Technically featured by a precisely designed two-mirror structure, capable of accurate and flexible sensing in two dimensions, and minute-level fast regional scanning. Frequent Earth imaging over 14 bands with off-axis three reflections of the primary optic system. On-board black body available for IR calibrations at very short time intervals. |
| Waveband: | 12 channels from 0.55 - 13.8 µm
VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, TIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 0.5-1 km VIS, 2 km NIR, 4 km TIR
Best resolution: 500 m |
| Swath width: | Full Earth disk |
| Accuracy: | radiation calibration accuracy: IR:0.7k, VIS/NIR :3-5% |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
| Data Format: | L-1 data: HDF 5.0 |
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AHI
Advanced Himawari Imager | JMA | Current: Himawari-8, Himawari-9
Future: -
Complete: - | Operational | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) | Measures cloud cover, cloud motion, cloud height, cloud properties, water vapour, rainfalll, sea surface temperatures and Earth radiation, dust, aerosols, volcanic ash, fires, snow and ice cover. |
| Waveband: | 16 bands from 0.47 µm to 13.3 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)
VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, TIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 0.5 km in 0.64 µm band; 1.0km in 0.47 µm, 0.51 µm and 0.86 µm band, 2.0 km in all others
Best resolution: 500 m |
| Swath width: | Full disk, Japan Area (Region 1, 2) : fixed area, Target Area (Region 3) and Landmark Area (Region 4, 5) : flexible area |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
| Data Format: | Himawari Standard Data, HRIT Data, LRIT data, NetCDF Data, Color Image Data. See:
https://www.data.jma.go.jp/mscweb/en/himawari89/space_segment/spsg_sample.html |
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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: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | TBD |
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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 & NIR: 0.5km, 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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