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See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge This document is part of the Satellite Imagery FAQ Satellite Information ADEOS ADEOS was successfully launched on August 17th, 1996. Information from the NASDA Front Page at http://www.nasda.go.jp Almaz Russian SAR imagery, ground resolution believed to be up to 15m. Images approx 40Km square. Available in four standard levels. Product details are at http://gds.esrin.esa.it/Ceuri.almaz. ERS-1 ERS-1, the first European Remote Sensing Satellite, was launched by ESA in July 1991. Stop press: reorganisation of Esrin's pages invalidates former links under "services". GDS links, including the ERS-1 mission front page at http://gds.esrin.esa.it/Ceuro_ers still work. This now includes ERS-1 FAQ, mission information, applications & bibliography, imagery and services. Further information, including _Earth Observation Quarterly_ continue to be available through http://services.esrin.esa.it. Online browsing of ERS-1 SAR images is available through Esrin's Multi-Mission Browse Service (MMBS) at http://tracy.esrin.esa.it:8001/www/ For ground station availability, see http://sloth.esrin.esa.it/gsstatus.html Reference: ERS User Handbook, esa SP-1148, ed. Bruce Battrick ISSN 0379-6566 ISBN 92-9092-029-7 published by ESA-ESTEC, Nordwijk, NL. ERS-2 Extensive set of WWW pages unveiled just before the April 21st Launch under http://services.esrin.esa.it/ including daily reports during calibration phase. The new GOME equipment is described under http://gds.esrin.esa.it/Ccal_val_gome. ATSR (Along Track Scanning Radiometer - ERS 1 and 2) Homepage at http://www.atsr.rl.ac.uk/ IRS-1C IRS-1C was launched successfully on December 28th, 1995. Information is available from the homepage at http://www.stph.net:80/nrsa/. Information posted by Nick Rollings and (nrolling@METZ.UNE.EDU.AU) and Guy Pierre (GP@scotc.cnes.fr); reformated with possible errors by me: IRS-1C charactersitics PAN LISS-III WIFS Type Pushbroom Pushbroom Whisk-broom Quantisation 64 128 128 repeat cycle 24 24 5 off-nadir days Swath (km) 70 142 810 Spatial Res.(m) 5.8 23.5 (B2-4) 70.5 (B5) 188 Spectral Bands B1 0.50-0.75 B2 0.52-0.59 B3 0.62-0.68 B4 0.77-0.86 B5 1.55-1.70 (source: Australian Centre for Remote Sensing ACRES) - the PAN camera is a high resolution (5.8m) single band sensor (0.5-0.75 microns) with ground swath of 70 kms. It can be steered up to +/- 26 degrees for obtaining stereoscopic data and 5 day revisit. - IRS-1C has an on-board recorder allowing to store 24 minutes of data, over half a swath (35 km) in PAN mode (Source: INTERFACE bulletin from the NRSA data centre) JERS-1 Japanese Earth Resources Satellite -1 NASDA's WWW page on this satellite is at http://hdsn.eoc.nasda.go.jp/guide/guide/satellite/satdata/jers_e.html and includes brief details & a couple of images. Sensor Characteristics http://gds.esrin.esa.it/CEURI.APP3.JERS1 OPS (Optical) Imagery - Online Browse http://tracy.esrin.esa.it:8001/www/ KOSMOS Russian imagery; currently the highest spatial resolution of any available. The KVR-1000 camera produces imagery at up to 2-meter resolution (panchromatic). There are online samples at http://cen.cenet.com/htmls/d2/sate.htm. A fine sample in the Eurimage 1995 calender shows KVR-1000 combined with Landsat TM to give the effect of ultra-high-resolution colour imagery. The TK-350 camera offers 10-meter resolution, and stereo capabilities. Technical information on the net is (AFAIK) sparse, but Ivan Krasnyj (ivan@krasnyj.spb.su at the time) posted the following: TK-350 (Topographic Camera) has high measuring characteristics. The images obtained by this camera have 10 m ground resolution, average scale is 1:660000, image size is 30x45 cm, one image covers the area 200x300 km, and longitudinal stereoscopic overlap is 60% or 80%. Stereoscopic overlap of TK-350 camera images (maximum value of B/H ratio is close to 1) provides the obtaining of ground relief mean error of 7 m, which is more better than for other existing systems. The image can be enlarged up to 1:50000 scale. KVR-1000. KVR-1000 (High Resolution Camera) can work together with TK-350 and provides the obtaining of the images with 2 m ground resolution, 1:220000 average scale, image size is 18x18 cm, and one image covers area 40x40 km. Camera works in panchromatic spectral range. The materials obtained by means of KVR-1000 let one to perform the detailed identification of the area of shooting. The images can be enlarged up to 1:10000 scale without significant loss of quality, which makes possible to create on their basis photomaps, photoplans and other products of scale 1:10000 and smaller. Joint use of photo materials made by TK-350 and KVR-1000 cameras together with the numerical measuring parameters, which are registered at the moment of shooting, let one to perform photogrammetric processing and to create topographic and photomaps of 1:50000 scale and smaller. It is possible to create maps practically of any region of the Earth surface, including the territories, where geodetic reference network is unavailable. Images can be delivered in the form of film, paper print and as digital data. Landsat Landsat's mission is "to provide for repetitive acquisition of high resolution multispectral data of the earth's surface on a global basis". Landsat is the "classic" Earth Observation satellite, dating back to 1972. The MSS (Multispectral Scanner) instrument provides visible/infrared imagery at 80m resolution; the TM (Thematic Mapper), first deployed on Landsat 4 in 1982, improves this to 20-30m. Comprehensive guides are available at http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/guide/landsat. http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/guide/landsat_tm. World-map based WWW browsing of Landsat TM imagery is available from http:tracy.esrin.esa.it:8001/www/ or http://www.coresw.com. 1982-1985 TM, and 1972-1992 MSS data are available at reduced prices from USGS. See http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/news/tm.html. See also the Landsat Pathfinder, at http://pathfinder-www.sr.unh.edu/pathfinder/ Meteosat Meteosat homepage is at http://gds.esrin.esa.it/Cmeteosat Nimbus Description and imagery at http://gds.esrin.esa.it/CNIMBUS (AFAIK) most noted for the CZCS ocean colour and other marine maps. This data is available in a variety of net locations and on CDROM. See the SeaWiFS project's pages at http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/IMAGES/CZCS.html NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES) This long-running (1978-) series of satellites carry the AVHRR instrument. A passive visible/infrared instrument imaging a broad (2400Km) swath, this is the most widely used of any in large-area (including continental and global scale) Earth Observation. A very comprehensive collection listing sources for data, information, technical reference, and describing applications is actively maintained by FAQ co-author Wim Bakker at http://www.itc.nl/~bakker/noaa.html There is a comprehensive technical guide to AVHRR imagery at http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/guide/avhrr. Sources for AVHRR data on the net are numerous - here are a few: 1. (near) real-time: (see also Weather Pics) http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science "Global Satellite Imagery" 2. Datasets (see also Whole-World Images) http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/landdaac.html USGS/EDC Land DAAC http://atlas.esrin.esa.it:8000/ Global AVHRR 1KM Server from ESA/ESRIN. http://shark1.esrin.esa.it/ _Ionia_ browser from ESA/ESRIN http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/BRS_SRVR/avhrrbrs_main.ht ml Land Pathfinder from NASA/GSFC. http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov/sst SST Pathfinder from NASA/JPL http://pegasus.nesdis.noaa.gov/pathfinder.html Atmosphere pathfinder from NOAA http://www.saa.noaa.gov/ NOAA Satellite Active Archive (DAAC) http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/pub/magsst/magsst.html Modern Average Global Sea Surface Temperature (USGS) http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/avhrr/ Ocean Remote Sensing Group of the Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory. http://www.xmission.com/~idi/usfs.htm The USA from Space RADARSAT Canadian Space Agency's major Earth Observation satellite, due for 1995 launch. Pending a proper entry here, see their homepage at http://adro.radar1.sp-agency.ca/adrohomepage.html. It's good and comprehensive, but slow! Another introduction is available from CCRS, at http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/radarsat/rsate.html December 1995: Radarsat Imagery is now online from MDA at http://www.mda.ca/radarsat/ RESURS Resurs imagery represents an important intermediate between the high spatial resolution of TM or SPOT and the high coverage of AVHRR or ATSR. A good writeup of this satellite available from SSC at http://www.ssc.se/ssc/sb/resurs.html An Inventory/browse service is available from Eurimage, at http://www.eurimage.it/einet/einet_home.html. SeaStar Ocean colour monitoring satellite; successor to CZCS(Nimbus). SeaWiFS - High temporal and spectral resolution optical instrument. Comprehensive information on homepage at http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/scripts/SEAWIFS.html. Shuttle The principal Earth Observation missions (AFAIK) are Imaging Radar. There is also a collection of Earth Observation imagery at NASA/JSC http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/html/home.htm Shuttle Imaging Radar Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar The most recent Shuttle Imaging Radar mission is a joint venture of NASA and the German and Italian national space agencies. It is equipped with an advanced imaging radar operating at three different wavelengths, and a variable viewing angle. SIR-C missions took place in April and October 1994. It is well covered by several good webpages, including: * NASA JPL have an excellent imaging radar homepage at http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/, the serious contents of which is at http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/scienceapps.html. Links from this page include information and browse images, and also an interactive _bulletin board_ (nice)! for discussion of imaging radar. * DLR have a SIR-C/X-SAR page http://www.op.dlr.de/ne-hf/SRL.html, containing general and mission information and online imagery, and an excellent description. * USGS/EDC have a SIR-C/X-SAR page at http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/sir-c/sir-c.html, with general information and browse facility. There is also a new browser at http://ic-www.arc.nasa.gov/ic/projects/bayes-group/Atlas/Earth/. However, it refused to serve me images: someone tell me whether it's broken or whether I have a problem? Shuttle Handheld Photography Information and imagery is available from JSC at http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop.html. Satellite Pour L'Observation de la Terre (SPOT) The French SPOT satellites provide high-resolution visual/infrared Earth Observation imagery. At 10m (Panchromatic) / 20m (Multispectral), SPOT imagery offers higher resolution than the major alternative Landsat. In addition, SPOT is the leading provider of stereoscopic (3-dimensional) imagery. Spot is on the Web at two apparently identical sites: http://www.spotimage.fr and http://www.spot.com. There is a comprehensive technical guide to SPOT at http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/guide/spot. Browsing SPOT imagery can be challenging (but check out http://www.coresw.com/. For the time being, Spot Image's DALI catalogue system is no longer accessible through IDN, as previously reported here. It is available on WWW through SPOT's websites on payment of a fee, or by X29 connection. As usual, Wim Bakker tracked down the currently valid information: To be complete: OLD X29 numbers: -(2080)31001232 -(2080)310012323 -(2080)3100123203 NEW X29 numbers: -(2080)31081141 -(2080)310811413 -(2080)31081141303 For me the following command on a VAX/VMS works for connecting to DALI: $set host/x29 02080310811413 Username and password (as used by the CEOS-IDN "LINK") QLEMAST and MASTER still work! _(the IDN presumably *could* gateway to the new X29 numbers and thus reinstate the service as previously described)_ TOPEX/POSEIDON Details and imagery at the homepage http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Sea-Surface Height Map - an interactive browser is available at http://www.ccar.colorado.edu/~hendricj/topexssh.html Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) See http://ame.gsfc.nasa.gov/tsdis/tsdis.html User Contributions:Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: |
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