THE CEOS DATABASE : MISSION SUMMARY

THE CEOS DATABASE : Missions, Instruments and Measurements

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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - ERS-1 -

Full Name

European Remote Sensing satellite - 1

Status

Mission complete

Mission Agencies

ESA

Launch Date

17 Jul 1991

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

07 Mar 2000

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

21574 (TLE)

International Designator

1991-050A

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

100.5 minutes

Orbit Sense

Descending

Orbit Inclination

98.52 deg

Orbit Altitude

782 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

10:30

Repeat Cycle

35 days

Objectives and Applications

Earth resources plus physical oceanography, ice and snow, land surface, meteorology, geodesy/gravity, environmental monitoring, atmospheric chemistry.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Aerosols	ATSR
	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	ATSR, ATSR/M, MWR, RA
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	ATSR
	Liquid water and precipitation rate	ATSR
	Ozone	ATSR
	Radiation budget	ATSR
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	ATSR
Gravity and Magnetic Fields	Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements	RA
Land	Albedo and reflectance	ATSR
	Landscape topography	AMI/SAR/Image, RA
	Soil moisture	AMI/SAR/Image, AMI/Scatterometer
	Vegetation	AMI/SAR/Image, AMI/Scatterometer, ATSR
	Surface temperature (land)	ATSR
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	AMI/SAR/Image, ATSR
Ocean	Ocean topography/currents	AMI/SAR/Image, RA
	Ocean surface winds	AMI/SAR/Wave, AMI/Scatterometer, RA
	Surface temperature (ocean)	ATSR
	Ocean wave height and spectrum	AMI/SAR/Image, AMI/SAR/Wave, RA
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	AMI/SAR/Image, ATSR
Snow & Ice	Ice sheet topography	AMI/SAR/Image, RA
	Snow cover, edge and depth	AMI/SAR/Image
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	AMI/SAR/Image, AMI/Scatterometer, RA