Name | Description | Nr of Bands |
AATSR | Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer | 7 |
ACE-FTS | Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment - Fourier Transform Spectrometer | |
AIRS | Atmospheric Infrared Sounder | 7 |
ALI | Advanced Land Imager | 9 |
ALISSA | L'atmosphere par Lidar Sur Saliout | 1 |
ALMAZ-1 | Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
AlSat | Standard DMC sensor | 3 |
ALT | Dual Frequency Radar Altimeter | 2 |
ALT (Seasat) | Altimeter | 1 |
AMI | Active Microwave | 1 |
AMSR | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer | 8 |
AMSR-E | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS | 6 |
AMSU-A | Advanced Microwave Sounding | 15 |
AMSU-B | Advanced Microwave Sounding | 5 |
ASAR | Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer | 14 |
ATSR-1 | Along Track Scanning Radiometer | 4 |
ATSR-2 | Along Track Scanning Radiometer | 7 |
AVHRR/2 | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer | 5 |
AVHRR/3 | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer | 6 |
AVNIR | Advanced visible near-infrared Radiometer | 5 |
AVNIR-2 | Adv. visible and near-infrared radiometer (type 2) | 4 |
AWiFS | Advanced Wide Field Sensor A and B | 4 |
BEIJING-1-MS | Standard DMC sensor | 3 |
BILSAT-MS | | 4 |
BILSAT-PAN | | 1 |
CCD | | 5 |
CERES | Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System | 3 |
Chinese Mapping Telescope | | 1 |
CHRIS | Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer | 18 |
COBAN | | 9 |
CZCS | Coastal Zone Color Scanner | 6 |
DK-1 camera | | 1 |
DK-2 camera | | 1 |
DORIS | Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite | 2 |
EOC | Electro-Optical Camera | 1 |
EP TOMS | Earth Probe-Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer | 6 |
ERB | Earth Radiation Budget | 13 |
ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment | 4 |
EROS A | | 1 |
ETM | Enhanced Thematic Mapper | 8 |
GERB | Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget | 2 |
GLAS | Geoscience Laser Altimeter System | 2 |
GLI | Global Imager | 36 |
GOME | Global Monitoring of Atmospheric Ozone | 6 |
GOMOS | Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars | 3 |
HCS | High Sensitivity Camera | 1 |
HEPD | High Energy Particle Detector | 7 |
HIRDLS | High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder | 21 |
HIRS/2 | High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder | 20 |
HIRS/3 | High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder | 20 |
HIRS/4 | High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder | 20 |
HRC | High Resolution Camera | 1 |
HRG | High Resolution Geometric | 4 |
HRS | High Resolution Stereoscopic | 1 |
HRTC | High Resolution Technological Camera | 1 |
HRV | High Resolution Visible | 4 |
HRVIR | High Resolution Visible and Infra-red | 4 |
HSB | Humidity Sounder for Brazil | 4 |
HSRS | Hot Spot Recognition Sensor System | 2 |
Hyperion | High resolution hyperspectral imager with 220 spectral bands (from 0.4 to 2.5 آµm) | 220 |
IKAR-DELTA | | 3 |
IKAR-N | | 5 |
IKAR-P | | 2 |
ILAS | Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer | 2 |
ILAS-II | Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer-II | 4 |
Imager | | 5 |
Imager-M | | 5 |
IMG | Interferometer Monitor for Greenhouse Gases | 1 |
IMS | Ionosphere Measurement Sensor | 1 |
IPEI | Ionosphere Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument | 4 |
IR-MSS | Infrared Multispectral scanner | 4 |
ISTOK-1 | Infrared Spectrometer | 64 |
JAMI | Japanese Advanced meteorological Imager | 5 |
JMR | Jason-1 Microwave Radiometer | 3 |
KVR-1000 | | 1 |
LAC | LEISA Atmospheric Corrector, corrects high spatial resolution multispectral data for atmospheric effects on surface reflectance | 256 |
LIMS | Limb infrared monitor of the Atmosphere | 6 |
LIS | Lightning Imaging sensor | 1 |
LISS 1 | Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 4 |
LISS 2 | Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 4 |
LISS 3 | Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 4 |
LISS 3* | Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 4 |
LISS 4 | Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 3 |
MAESTRO | Measurements of Aerosol Extinction in the Stratosphere and Troposphere Retrieved by Occultation | |
MERIS | Medium Resolution Imaging Specrometer Instrument | 15 |
MESSR | Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer | 4 |
MHS | Microwave Humidity Sounder | 5 |
MIPAS | Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding | 5 |
MISR | Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer | 4 |
MLS | Microwave Limb Sounder | 5 |
MMRS | MultiSpectral Medium Resolution Scanner | 5 |
MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (PFM on Terra, FM1 on Aqua) | 36 |
MOMS-2P | Modular Optoelectronic Multispectral Scanner | 4 |
MOPITT | Measurement Of Pollution In The Troposphere | 64 |
MOS | Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer | 18 |
MOS-A | Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer | 4 |
MOS-B | Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer | 13 |
MSMR | Multifrequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer | 4 |
MSR | Microwave Scanning Radiometer | 2 |
MSS | Multispectral Scanner | 4 |
MSS (LS 1-3) | Multispectral Scanner Landsat 1,2,3 | 5 |
MSU | Microwave Sounding Unit | 4 |
MSU-E | Microwave Sounding Unit | 3 |
MSU-E1 | | 3 |
MSU-E2 | | 3 |
MSU-SK | | 5 |
MSU-SK (Resurs) | | 5 |
MSU-SK1 | | 5 |
MTI | Multi-spectral Thermal Imager | 16 |
MVISR | Multichannel Visible and IR Scan Radiometer | 10 |
MWR | Microwave Radiometer | 2 |
NigeriaSat-1 | Standard DMC sensor | 3 |
NSCAT | NASA Scatterometer | 1 |
OCI | Ocean Color Imager | 7 |
OCM | Ocean Color Monitor | 8 |
OCTS | Ocean Color and Temperature scanner | 12 |
OLS | Operational Linescan System | 3 |
OMI | Ozone Monitoring Instrument | 3 |
OPS | Optical Sensor | 8 |
Orbview-3 | | 5 |
OSA | Optical Sensor Assembly | 5 |
OSIRIS | Optical Spectograph and Infrared Imaging System | |
OSMI | Ocean Scanning Multi-spectral Imager | 6 |
OTD | Optical Transient Detector | 1 |
OZON-M | | 4 |
PALSAR | L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
PAN | | 1 |
PAN-A | Panchromatic-Aft pointing | 1 |
PAN-F | Panchromatic-Forward pointing | 1 |
POAM-II | Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement | 9 |
POAM-III | Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement | 9 |
POLDER | Polarization and directionality of the Earth's reflectance | 15 |
Poseidon 2 altimeter | | 2 |
PR | Precipitation Radar | 2 |
PRISM | Three panchromatic sensors for Stereomapping | 1 |
Quickbird | High resolution: Pan: 61 cm (nadir) to 72 cm (25آ؛ off-nadir), MS: 2.44 m to 2.88 m | 4 |
R-400 | | 1 |
RA | Radio Altimeter | 2 |
RA-2 | Radio Altimeter | 3 |
Radar Altimeter | | 1 |
RBV | Return Beam Vidicon Camera | 4 |
RIS | Reflector in space | 1 |
ROCSAT-2 | | 5 |
S-VISSR | S-Visible and IR Spin Scan Radiometer | 4 |
SAM II | Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement | 1 |
SAMS | Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder | 9 |
SAR (JERS-1) | Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
SAR (RadarSat-1) | Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
SAR (Seasat) | Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
SASS | Seasat-A Satellite Scatterometer | 1 |
SBUV/2 | Solar Backscatter Ultra violet instrument | 12 |
SBUV/TOMS | Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet/Total Ozone Mapping-failed in 1993 | 6 |
SCIAMACHY | Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography | 8 |
SeaWiFS | Sea viewing Wide Field Sensor | 8 |
Seawinds | | 1 |
SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager | 12 |
SIM | Spectral Irradiance Monitor | 1 |
SIR-C | | 1 |
SMMR | Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer | 5 |
SOLSTICE A & B | SOlar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment | 1 |
Sounder | | 19 |
SSMIS | Special Sensor Micowave Imager/Sounder | 4 |
SSU | Stratospheric Sounder Unit | 3 |
TES | Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer | 12 |
THIR | Temperature Humidity Infrared Radiometer | 2 |
TIM | Total Irradiance Monitor | 1 |
TK-350 | | 1 |
TM | Thematic Mapper | 7 |
TMI | TRMM Microwave Imager | 5 |
TMR | TOPEX Microwave Radiometer | 3 |
TOMS | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (see also SBUV/TOMS) | 6 |
TopSat | | 1 |
Travers SAR | | 2 |
TV Camera | | 1 |
UK-DMC | Standard DMC sensor | 3 |
VEGETATION | VEGETATION 2 on Spot 5 | 4 |
VHRR | Very High Resolution Radiometer | 2 |
VIRR | Visible and IR Radiometer | 2 |
VIRS | Visible and Infra red scanner | 5 |
VISSR | Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer | 3 |
VISSR (GMS) | Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer | 4 |
VTIR | Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer | 4 |
WAOSS-B | Wide-Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner | 2 |
Water Vapor Radiometer | | 2 |
WFI | Wide field imager | 2 |
WiFS | Wide Field Sensor | 3 |
WindSat | | 5 |
X-SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
XPS | XUV Photometer | 1 |
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