Mission Agency Programme Key Instruments Applications Further Information

Biological and physical processes,

AIRS, AMSR-E, AMSU-A, CERES,
Aqua NASA/JAXA/INPE NASA’s Earth Observing System surface temperatures of land and Aqua
HiRDLS, HSB, MODIS
ocean

Calipso NASA, CNES NASA’s Earth System Science CALIOP, WFC, IIR Aerosols and clouds Calipso
Pathfinder Program
NASA’s Earth System Science Cloudsat
Cloudsat NASA Cloud Profiling Radar Altitude and properties of clouds
Pathfinder Program
NASA/NOAA/CNES/ NASA’s Earth Observing System POSEIDON-3B, AMR-2, DORIS, Ocean surface height Jason-3
Jason-3
EUMETSAT GPSP, LRA measurements
EUMETSAT/NOAA/C Metop Programme Metop-A
Metop-A IASI, GOME-2 Meteorology, climatology
NES/ESA
EUMETSAT/NOAA/C Metop Programme Metop-B
Metop-B IASI, GOME-2 Meteorology, climatology
NES/ESA
EUMETSAT/NOAA/C Metop Programme Metop-C
Metop-C IASI, GOME-2 Meteorology, climatology
NES/ESA
Meteosat Second Generation Meteosat-9
Meteosat-9 EUMETSAT/ESA SEVIRI, GERB Meteorology, climatology
Programme
Meteosat Second Generation Meteosat-10
Meteosat-10 EUMETSAT/ESA SEVIRI, GERB Meteorology, climatology
Programme
Meteosat Second Generation Meteosat-11
Meteosat-11 EUMETSAT/ESA SEVIRI, GERB Meteorology, climatology
Programme
Sentinel- Copernicus Continuity of C-Band SAR data for Sentinel-1
ESA C-Band SAR
1(a.b) operational use
 Copernicus Land and sea monitoring, natural Sentinel-2
Sentinel-
ESA MSI, VNIR, SWIR disasters mapping, sea ice
2(a,b)
observations, ships detection
Copernicus Global land and ocean monitoring Sentinel-3
Sentinel-3 ESA/EUMETSAT OLCI, SLSTR, SRAL
services
Copernicus Trace gas concentrations and Sentinel-4
Sentinel-4 ESA/EUMETSAT UVN, IRS
aerosols
Copernicus Tropomi - TROPOspheric Sentinel-5p
Sentinel-5p ESA Air pollution
Monitoring Instrument
Sentinel-6 EUMETSAT/NASA Copernicus AMR-C, LRA, Radar Altimeter Oceans Sentinel-6
NASA’s Earth Observing System Biological and physical processes,
MODIS, MOPITT, MISR, ASTER, surface temperatures of land and Terra
Terra NASA/METI/CSA
CERES ocean, measurements of CO in
the troposphere