NAME OF SATELITTE

LAUNCHED ON

CURRENT STATUS

USED FOR

REVISIT TIME

ORBVIEW-2 (SEASTAR)

1997

To Collect color imagery of the Earth's entire land and ocean surfaces on a daily Passivebasis,Commercial fishing vessels December 2010 used the satellite data for detecting oceanographic conditions and used to create fishing maps

1 day

provides global data on the state of the atmosphere, land, and oceans, as well as their interactions with solar radiation and with one another.

TERRA

18-Dec-99

Active

16 days

ADEOS II

Dec-02

Acquire all weather high resolution measurements of near surface winds over global oceans.Determine atmospheric influences, ocean response and Passive-October air-sea interactions on various 2003 spatial and temporal scales.

4 days

26/05/1991

Oceansat-1

Active

Oceanographic studies

2 days

oceansat-2

23/9/2009

QuikSCAT (quick scatterometer )

19-Jul-99

Passive- 21 november 2009

To acquire all-weather, highresolution measurements of near-surface winds over global oceans.Study daily/seasonal sea ice edge movement and Arctic/Antarctic ice pack

4 days

SENSOR USED

SPATIAL RESOLUTION

SPECTRAL RESOLUTION

TEMPORAL RESOLUTION

RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION

Sea WiFS (Sea Viewing Wide Field-of- 1.1 km (LAC), view Sensor). 4.5 km (GAC).

Each CZCS scan viewed the Earth for approximately 27.5 microseconds. During this period, 8 bands. 6 visible each channel of the and 2 near IR analog data output (402-885nm) was digitized to obtain a total of about 2000 samples. Successive scans occured at the rate of 8 per second.

10 bits

ASTER,CER ES,MISR, MODIS,MOP 13.5 km horizontal POLDER ITT

36 bands, of which 9 is being used for Daily, 8 day, 16 day, ocean studies (405- monthly, quarterly, 877nm) yearly

12 bits

(POLarizatio n and Directionalit y of the Earth's Reflectances) . Ocean Color Monitor (OCM) and the Multifrequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR

6 kms

9 bands. Ranging from 443 nm to 910 nm

10 day, 1 month

360m

spectral bands in the VNIR region ranging from 402nm-885nm

eight-band with 360 metres

25 kms,higher resolution of 12.5 kms is got through special processing 13.4 GHz,in Ku sea winds but significantly band of microwave scatterometer with more noise. frequencies

daily and 4 day