Mission Agency Programme Key Instruments Applications Further Information
Biological and physical AIRS, AMSR-E, AMSU-A, Aqua NASA/JAXA/INPE NASA’s Earth Observing processes, surface Aqua CERES, HiRDLS, HSB, MODIS System temperatures of land and ocean Aquarius L-Band Ocean surface salinity, Aquarius CONAE/NASA NASA’s Earth Observing Scatterometer, Aquarius L- atmospheric and environmental Aquarius System Band Radiometer parameters Chemistry and dynamics of NASA/NSOFMI/ NASA’s Earth Observing HiRDLS, MLS (EOS-Aura), Earth’s atmosphere from the Aura Aura NIVR/UKSA System OMI, TES ground through the stratosphere ESA’s Living Planet Programme Forest biomass monitoring Biomass ESA P-Band SAR
CBERS Programme DCS , IRS, MUX, PAN Earth resources, environmental
CBERS 4 INPE/CRESDA (CBERS), WFI-2 monitoring, land surface ESA’s Living Planet Programme DORIS-NG, Laser Reflectors CryoSat-2 CryoSat-2 ESA Ice thickness (ESA), SIRAL Disaster Monitoring Mapping, crop monitoring, UK- DMC2 UKSA Constellation SLIM-6 environmental resource and disaster management AATSR, ASAR, ASAR (image Physical oceanography, land Envisat ESA Envisat Programme mode), ASAR (wave mode), surface, ice and snow, Envisat DORIS-NG, MERIS, MIPAS, atmospheric chemistry, Course EO Satellite Missions Table
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MWR, RA-2, SCIAMACHY atmospheric dynamics AMI/SAR/Image, Earth resources, physical ERS-1 ESA ESA AMI/SAR/Wave, oceanography, land, geodesy, ERS-1 AMI/Scatterometer, ATSR atmosphere AMI/SAR/Image, Earth resources, physical ERS-2 ESA ESA AMI/SAR/Wave, oceanography, land, geodesy, ERS-2 AMI/Scatterometer, ATSR/M atmosphere GEDI (on NASA’s Earth Observing Forest canopy structure, carbon NASA LIDAR board ISS) System cycle ESA’s Living Planet Programme EGG, GPS (ESA), Laser Ocean circulation, geodesy, GOCE GOCE ESA Reflectors (ESA), LRR, SSTI solid earth physics GOSAT Project Observations of greenhouse GOSAT GOSAT JAXA/MOE/NIES TANSO-CAI, TANSO-FTS gases NASA’s Earth Observing DORIS-NG, JMR, LRA, Physical oceanography, Jason-1 Jason-1 NASA/CNES System POSEIDON-2 (SSALT-2), geodesy/gravity, climate TRSR monitoring, marine meteorology NASA’s Earth Observing Earth resources, land surface, Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Landsat-7 USGS/NASA System environmental monitoring, + agriculture and forestry Earth resources, land surface, Landsat-8 USGS/NASA NASA’s Earth Observing OLI, TIRS environmental monitoring, Landsat-8 System agriculture and forestry Course EO Satellite Missions Table
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NASA’s Earth Observing High resolution carbon dioxide OCO-2
OCO-2 NASA Spectrometer System measurements NASA’s Earth Observing SeaWiFS (Sea-Viewing Wide Global ocean bio-optical OrbView-2 GeoEye System Field-of-View Sensor) properties NASA’s Earth Observing Physical oceanography, OSTM/Jason-2 OSTM/Jason NASA/NOAA/CNE AMR, DORIS-NG, GPSP, JMR, System geodesy/gravity, climate, -2 S/EUMETSAT LRA, POSEIDON-3 marine meteorology ESA’s Proba Programme Vegetation Imaging multi- Map land cover and vegetation Proba-V Proba-V ESA spectral radiometers growth Microwave Imaging Map soil moisture and ocean SMOS ESA ESA’s Living Planet Programme Radiometer using Aperture SMOS salinity Synthesis (MIRAS) ACC, ASM, EFI, GPS Receiver Swarm ESA ESA’s Living Planet Programme (Swarm), Laser Reflectors Earth’s geomagnetic field Swarm (ESA), STR, VFM Course EO Satellite Missions Table
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Copernicus Continuity of C-Band SAR data Sentinel-1
Sentinel-1 ESA C-Band SAR for operational use Copernicus Supporting land monitoring Sentinel-2 Sentinel-2 ESA MSI (Sentinel-2) related services Copernicus Global land and ocean Sentinel-3 Sentinel-3 ESA OLCI, SLSTR, SRAL monitoring services Sentinel-4 Copernicus Atmospheric composition and Sentinel-4 ESA UVN (Sentinel-4) air quality monitoring services Sentinel-5 Copernicus In early stages of mission Sentinel-5 ESA UVNS (Sentinel-5) definition Copernicus Supporting global atmospheric Sentinel-5p Sentinel-5p ESA UVNS (Sentinel-5p) composition and air quality monitoring services Copernicus AMR-C, DORIS-NG, LRA Sentinel-6 High-precision ocean ESA (Sentinel-6), Poseidon-4 topography service Altimeter, TriG The SPOT Programme Land surface, agriculture and DORIS (SPOT), HRVIR, SPOT-4 CNES forestry, digital terrain models, VEGETATION environmental monitoring The SPOT Programme DORIS-NG (SPOT), HRG, Land surface, agriculture and SPOT-5 CNES HRS, VEGETATION forestry, digital terrain models, Course EO Satellite Missions Table
Mission Agency Programme Key Instruments Applications Further Information
environmental monitoring NASA’s Earth Observing Biological and physical System processes, surface Terra MODIS, MOPITT, MISR, Terra NASA/METI/CSA temperatures of land and ASTER, CERES ocean, measurements of CO in the troposphere NASA’s Earth Observing Topex/Poseidon Topex/Posei DORIS, LRA, POSEIDON-1 Physical oceanography, NASA/CNES System don (SSALT-1), TMR, TOPEX geodesy/gravity