Objectives and Applications
Ecosystem stress and water use (i.e. monitoring of energy and water budgets of the continental biosphere); 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 and VSWIR mission
Mission Status
Approved
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
Dec 2027
Mission Links
EOL Date
Dec 2032
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
100 minutes
Orbit Sense
Descending
Orbit Inclination
98.4 deg
Orbit Altitude
761 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
12:30
Repeat Cycle
8 days
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Atmosphere | Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature | SWIR |
| Land | Albedo and reflectance | SWIR |
| Vegetation | VNIR |
| Surface temperature (land) | TIR |
| Multi-purpose imagery (land) | SWIR |
| Ocean | Surface temperature (ocean) | TIR |
| Snow & Ice | Snow cover, edge and depth | SWIR |
| Sea ice cover, edge and thickness | SWIR |
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