Soil Type
Measurement Instruments
Measurement Definition: Result of the classification of different types of soil within a vegetated area - Accuracy expressed as number of classes. Actually [ classes-1 ] is used, so that smaller figure corresponds to better performance, as usual.
| Instrument | Status/
Accuracy | Instrument Description | Measurement Technology | Timeline |
| CSG SAR | Operational | All-weather images of ocean, land and ice for monitoring of land surface processes, ice, environmental monitoring, risk management, environmental resources, maritime management, Earth topographic mapping. | Imaging radar (SAR) |  |
| GSA (1) | Operational | Land surface monitoring | n/a | |
| MSI (Sentinel-2) | Operational | Optical high spatial resolution imagery over land and coastal areas for Copernicus operational services. | High resolution optical imager | |
| SAR (RADARSAT-2) | Operational | All-weather images of ocean, ice and land surfaces. Used for monitoring of coastal zones, polar ice, sea ice, sea state, geological features, vegetation and land surface processes. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| SAR (RCM) | Operational | All-weather, C-band data to support ecosystem monitoring, maritime surveillance and disaster management. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| SAR 2000 | Operational | All-weather images of ocean, land and ice for monitoring of land surface processes, ice, environmental monitoring, risk management, environmental resources, maritime management, Earth topographic mapping. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| VIIRS | Operational | Global observations of land, ocean, and atmosphere parameters: cloud/weather imagery, sea-surface temperature, ocean colour, land surface vegetation indices. | n/a | |