| Name |
Resource Type |
Description |
| ABI |
Satellite Instrument |
ABI (Advanced Baseline Imager) is an imaging instrument that will fly on futu... |
| Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) |
Satellite Instrument |
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| Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS) |
Satellite Instrument |
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| AIRS |
Satellite Instrument |
AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder) is one of six instruments on board the Aq... |
| ALOS - AVNIR-2 |
Satellite Instrument |
AVNIR-2 is a four-band (visible-and near-infrared) radiometer on the ALOS pla... |
| ALOS - PALSAR |
Satellite Instrument |
PALSAR is a Phased Array type L-band SAR on the JAXA ALOS land observing pla... |
| ALOS - PRISM |
Satellite Instrument |
PRISM on the ALOS platform is a panchromatic instrument that consists of thre... |
| AMSR-E |
Satellite Instrument |
AMSR (Atmospheric Microwave Scanning Radiometer - EOS) is one of six instrume... |
| AMSU A |
Satellite Instrument |
The Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) system is implemented in two ... |
| AMSU B |
Satellite Instrument |
The AMSU-B is a crosstrack, continuous line scanning, total power radiometer ... |
| Aquarius |
Satellite Instrument |
Aquarius is a focused satellite mission to measure global Sea Surface Salinit... |
| ASTER |
Satellite Instrument |
ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) is an ... |
| ATMS |
Satellite Instrument |
Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder - (ATMS)
ATMS is being developed b... |
| ATSR-1 |
Satellite Instrument |
The ATSR (Along Track Scanning Radiometer) instruments produce infrared image... |
| AVHRR |
Satellite Instrument |
AVHRR is a visible through thermal infrared instrument that does everything f... |
| CERES |
Satellite Instrument |
The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) experiment observes ... |
| CHAMP GPS |
Satellite Instrument |
LEO polar satellite carrying GPS geodetic receiver for high-low sat-sat gravi... |
| Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) |
Satellite Instrument |
The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPS... |
| CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar |
Satellite Instrument |
The CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) is a nadir-viewing 94 GHz cloud rada... |
| COSMIC |
Satellite Instrument |
Constellation of 6 LEO satellites in 6 uniformly spaced planes at 72 deg incl... |
| COSMO-SkyMed |
Satellite Instrument |
Based on the strategy of the Italian National Space Plan (PSN), the initial f... |
| CrIS |
Satellite Instrument |
cross-track scanner; Michelson-type interferometer; 1 deg resolution at nadir |
| DMSP/OLS |
Satellite Instrument |
The operational line scanner is a cross track scanner in the visible to therm... |
| EO-1 Advanced Land Imager (ALI) |
Satellite Instrument |
The Advanced Land Imager was designed as a prototype for the Landsat Data Con... |
| EO-1 Hyperion |
Satellite Instrument |
Hyperion, the first successful operational hyperspectral sensor, was launched... |
| ERBE |
Satellite Instrument |
The NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) instruments were deployed o... |
| ERS-1 SAR |
Satellite Instrument |
On 17 July 1991, the European Remote-Sensing Satellite, ERS-1, the first Euro... |
| ERS-2 SAR |
Satellite Instrument |
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| ERS-Altimeter |
Satellite Instrument |
The Radar Altimeter is a Ku-band (13.8 GHz) nadir-pointing active microwave s... |
| Geosat Follow-On |
Satellite Instrument |
Geosat Follow-On is a U.S. Navy altimeter mission that was launched on Feb 10... |
| Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) |
Satellite Instrument |
The Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite has only one instrument - the Geos... |
| Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) |
Satellite Instrument |
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| GOES Imager |
Satellite Instrument |
The GOES Imager is a multi-channel instrument designed to sense radiant and s... |
| GRACE |
Satellite Instrument |
Twin LEO spacecraft performing precise LEO-LEO crosslink ranging by radio lin... |
| GRACE GPS-RO |
Satellite Instrument |
GPS limb-sounding instrument aboard the GRACE spacecraft. |
| HIRDLS |
Satellite Instrument |
HIRDLS is an mid-infrared limb-scanning radiometer (21 channels from 6.12 to ... |
| IKONOS |
Satellite Instrument |
When GeoEye successfully launched the IKONOS® satellite in 1999, it made hist... |
| Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR) |
Satellite Instrument |
The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPS... |
| Jason-1 Altimeter |
Satellite Instrument |
Jason -1 is a nadir altimeter designed to measure the height of the sea surfa... |
| JERS |
Satellite Instrument |
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| Landsat ETM+ |
Satellite Instrument |
3 Visible (30m), 2 NIR (30m), 1 MIR (30m), 1 Pan (15m), 1 Thermal (Low/High G... |
| Landsat MSS |
Satellite Instrument |
The Multi Spectral Scanner (MSS) onboard Landsats 1, 2 and 3 covered a 185km ... |
| Landsat TM |
Satellite Instrument |
The multi-spectral Thematic Mapper (TM) whisk-broom instrument was developed ... |
| MERIS |
Satellite Instrument |
MERIS is a programmable, medium-spectral resolution, imaging spectrometer ope... |
| MISR |
Satellite Instrument |
Multi-angle Imaging SpectraRadiometer
MISR is a new type of instrument, de... |
| MLS |
Satellite Instrument |
The Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) experiments measure naturally-occurring micr... |
| MODIS |
Satellite Instrument |
The MODIS instrument is operating on both the Terra and Aqua spacecraft. It ... |
| MOPITT |
Satellite Instrument |
Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere
The MOPITT instrument, on the... |
| OMI |
Satellite Instrument |
OMI, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument, is a hyperspectral sensor contributed b... |
| OMPS Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite |
Satellite Instrument |
The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) is designed to monitor ozone from... |
| POLDER |
Satellite Instrument |
POLarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectances. POLDER is a wid... |
| QuickBird |
Satellite Instrument |
QuickBird is a high-resolution commercial earth observation satellite, owned ... |
| Quikscat |
Satellite Instrument |
QuikSCAT mission is intended to record sea-surface wind speed and direction d... |
| Radarsat 1 |
Satellite Instrument |
RADARSAT-1 is a sophisticated Earth observation satellite developed by Canada... |
| SAC-C GPS-RO |
Satellite Instrument |
GPS limb sounder on Argentine SAC-C spacecraft |
| SEASAT |
Satellite Instrument |
In 1978, JPL built an experimental satellite called Seasat to test a variety ... |
| SeaWIFS |
Satellite Instrument |
The SeaWiFS sensor is an 8 band visible instrument designed to collect global... |
| SSM/I |
Satellite Instrument |
The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave/... |
| SSMIS |
Satellite Instrument |
The Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) is a conically scanning p... |
| TerraSAR-X |
Satellite Instrument |
Synthetic Aperture Radar (German DLR)
TerraSAR-X is a new German radar sat... |
| TES |
Satellite Instrument |
The Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) launched into sun-synchronous or... |
| TOMS |
Satellite Instrument |
TOMS is part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth a long term, coordinated resea... |
| TOPEX/Poseidon |
Satellite Instrument |
Radar altimeter with onboard boresighted microwave radiometer for water vapor... |
| Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) |
Satellite Instrument |
Measures total solar irradiance |
| TOVS |
Satellite Instrument |
The TOVS instrument package provides information on temperature and humidity ... |
| TRMM PR |
Satellite Instrument |
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite is a joint project b... |
| TRMM TMI |
Satellite Instrument |
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission's (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) is a ... |
| TRMM VIRS |
Satellite Instrument |
The Visible and Infrared Scanner VIRS) is one of the primary instruments aboa... |
| VIIRS |
Satellite Instrument |
The Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite collects visible/infrared imager... |
| VISSR |
Satellite Instrument |
The Visible Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (VISSR) is an imaging device used f... |
| Wide Field Camera (WFC) |
Satellite Instrument |
Wavelength: 645 nm
Spectral bandwidth: 50 nm
IFOV/swath: 125 m/61 km ... |
| WindSat |
Satellite Instrument |
WindSat is a satellite-based polarimetric microwave radiometer developed by t... |
| WorldView-1 |
Satellite Instrument |
High Resolution Panchromatic Optical Imager |
| WorldView-2 |
Satellite Instrument |
High Resolution Panchromatic and 8-Band Multispectral Optical Imager |
