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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
Mission Instruments
AMI/SAR/Image - Active Microwave Instrumentation. Image Mode
AMI/SAR/Wave - Active Microwave Instrumentation. Wave mode
AMI/Scatterometer - Active Microwave Instrumentation. Wind mode
ATSR - Along Track Scanning Radiometer
ATSR/M - ATSR/M
ERS Comms - Communication package for ERS
MWR - Microwave Radiometer
RA - Radar Altimeter
OpenSearch Datasets
Selected IDN OpenSearch Results
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)
500 metre interval contours of Antarctica derived from ERS radar altimetry data.
A digital terrain model of Antarctica in Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) format, derived from E ...
Antarctic 5-km Digital Elevation Model from ERS-1 Altimetry, Version 1
Antarctic iceberg sizes and spatial distribution from SAR image analysis - Map
BOREAS Follow-On DSP-04 1994 ERS-1 Level-4 Landscape Freeze/Thaw Maps, Ver. 1.0
BOREAS RSS-17 1994 ERS-1 Level-3 Freeze/Thaw Backscatter Change Images
Brightness Temperature images processed and delivered in near-real time from the AVHRR and ATSR inst ...
Burnt Areas in Central Africa
CDDIS_SLR_predictions
CEOS Cal Val Test Site - Algeria 3 - Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Site (PICS)
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