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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- ERS-2
-
Full Name
European Remote Sensing satellite - 2
Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
ESA
Launch Date
21 Apr 1995
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
04 Jul 2011
EO Portal Info
NORAD Catalog #
23560
(
TLE
)
International Designator
1995-021A
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-2
Atmospheric Humidity Fields
ATSR/M
,
GOME
,
MWR
,
RA
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature
ATSR-2
,
GOME
Ozone
GOME
Radiation budget
ATSR-2
,
GOME
Trace gases (excluding ozone)
GOME
Gravity and Magnetic Fields
Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements
RA
Land
Albedo and reflectance
ATSR-2
Landscape topography
AMI/SAR/Image
,
RA
Soil moisture
AMI/SAR/Image
,
AMI/Scatterometer
Vegetation
AMI/SAR/Image
,
AMI/Scatterometer
,
ATSR-2
Surface temperature (land)
ATSR-2
Multi-purpose imagery (land)
AMI/SAR/Image
,
ATSR-2
Ocean
Ocean topography/currents
AMI/SAR/Image
,
RA
Ocean surface winds
AMI/SAR/Wave
,
AMI/Scatterometer
,
RA
Surface temperature (ocean)
ATSR-2
Ocean wave height and spectrum
AMI/SAR/Image
,
AMI/SAR/Wave
,
RA
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)
AMI/SAR/Image
,
ATSR-2
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/M - ATSR/M
ATSR-2 - Along Track Scanning Radiometer - 2
ERS Comms - Communication package for ERS
GOME - Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
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 ...
ABoVE: Wetland Type, Slave River and Peace-Athabasca Deltas, Canada, 2007 and 2017
Antarctic iceberg sizes and spatial distribution from SAR image analysis - Map
Antarctic surface snow grain size spatial distribution from satellite nir analysis - Map
Brightness Temperature images processed and delivered in near-real time from the AVHRR and ATSR inst ...
CDDIS_SLR_predictions
CEOS Cal Val Test Site - Algeria 3 - Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Site (PICS)
CEOS Cal Val Test Site - Algeria 5 - Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Site (PICS)
CEOS Cal Val Test Site - Dome C, Antarctica - Instrumented Site
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