Objectives and Applications
1) Ecosystem stress and water use (i.e. monitoring of energy and water budgets of the continental biosphere)
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2) Urban (i.e. climatology and monitoring of fluxes of urban surfaces); 3) Sea Surface Temperature on approximately 200 km coast band.
Full Name
Thermal infrared mission
Mission Status
Approved
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
Dec 2026
Mission Links
EOL Date
Dec 2031
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
Descending
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
666 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
12.30-13.30
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
SWIR - Short Wave Infra Red |
TIR - Thermal Infra Red |
| VNIR - Visible and Near Infra Red |
| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Atmosphere | Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature | SWIR |
| Land | Albedo and reflectance | SWIR |
| Vegetation | VNIR |
| Surface temperature (land) | TIR |
| Snow & Ice | Snow cover, edge and depth | SWIR |
| Sea ice cover, edge and thickness | SWIR |
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