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Appendix D: Satellite Sensors
Satellites and sensors are commissioned and deployed annually. The list presented here is an
attempt to briefly review the utility of only a few sensors. This list, though not fully com-
prehensive, is a good starting point in referencing sensors.
For an extensive list of satellite sensors (acronyms and full names) see
http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/resourcekit/M3/Data/Measurements/Instrumentation/gcmd_sensors.htm.
Sensor
Spatial
Band/Wavelength
Application
URL
Resolution
or Frequency
(metric)
Detection
AATSR
1000m
0.555m (green),
Atmosphere, forest,
0.659m (red),
vegetation, oceans,
0.865m (NIR),
coasts, weather &
1.6m (SWIR),
climate
3.7m (TIR),
10.85m (TIR),
12.0m (TIR)
AC
250
0.89-1.58m
Used to atmospherically
correct high-spatial,
low-spectral resolution
multispectral sensors
ACE-FTS
0.02-1cm
2-13 m (infrared)
Measures the
4km vertical
temperature, vertical
resolution
distribution of trace
gases and aerosols an
thin clouds
AIRS
Measures 2,300
Weather, climate, O3,
spectral channels:
and greenhouse gasses
0.4 - 1.7 m and
3.4 - 15.4 m
ALI
30 m
10 bands across
Land use studies,
(10 m
0.433-2.35 m
mineral resource
panchromatic)
assessment, coastal
processes research and
climate change studies
AMI (SAR and
30 m
37.5 77 mm
Ocean surface winds
wind
and mean sea level
Scattometer)
AMSR
5 to 50km
8 frequency bands
Water vapor content,
depending
from 6.9GHz to
precipitation, sea
on frequency
89GHz bands
surface temperature,
band
respectively
sea surface wind, sea
ice, and clouds
(detectable night and
day)
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