| Name | Description | No of Bands | Mission |
|
SAR-C (GF-3)
| C-SAR on GF-3 | | GaoFen-3 (GF-3) |
|
3MI
| Multi-viewing, Multi-channel, Multi-polarization Imager | 12 | MetOp-SG A1, Metop-SG A2, Metop-SG A3 |
|
AATSR
| Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer | 7 | ENVISAT |
|
ABI
| Advanced Baseline Imager | 16 | GOES-16 (GOES-EAST), GOES-17 (GOES-WEST), GOES-18, GOES-19 (GOES-U) |
|
ACE-FTS
| Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment - Fourier Transform Spectrometer | | SCISAT |
|
ACGS
| Atmospheric Carbon-dioxide Grating Spectrometer | 2000 | TANSAT |
|
ACS
| Atmospheric Correction Sensor | | |
|
AEISS
| Advanced Earth Imaging Sensor System | 4 | KOMPSAT-3, KOMPSAT-3A |
|
AEISS-HR
| Advanced Earth Imaging Sensor System with High Resolution | | KOMPSAT-7 |
|
AHI
| Advanced Himawari Imager | 16 | Himawari-8, Himawari-9 |
|
AIRS
| Atmospheric Infrared Sounder | 7 | Aqua |
|
Aladin
| Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument | | Aeolus |
|
ALI
| Advanced Land Imager | 9 | EO-1 |
|
ALISSA
| L'atmosphere par Lidar Sur Saliout | 1 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
ALMAZ-1
| Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 | ALMAZ-1 |
|
AlSat
| Standard DMC sensor | 3 | AlSat-1, AlSat-1B |
|
ALT
| Dual Frequency Radar Altimeter | 2 | TOPEX/Poseidon |
|
ALT (Seasat)
| Altimeter | 1 | Seasat |
|
AltiKa
| High resolution altimeter including bi-frequency radiometric function | 2 | SARAL/AltiKa |
|
AMI
| Active Microwave | 1 | ERS-1, ERS-2 |
|
AMI (Geo-Kompsat)
| Advanced Meteorological Imager | 16 | GEO-KOMPSAT-2A |
|
AMR
| Advanced Microwave Radiometer | 3 | Jason-2 |
|
AMR-2
| Advanced Microwave Radiometer - 2 | 3 | Jason-3 |
|
AMSR
| Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer | 8 | ADEOS-II |
|
AMSR-2
| Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-2 | 7 | GCOM-W1 |
|
AMSR-E
| Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS | 6 | Aqua |
|
AMSU-A
| Advanced Microwave Sounding | 15 | Aqua, Metop-A, Metop-B, Metop-C, NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-17, NOAA-18, NOAA-19 |
|
AMSU-B
| Advanced Microwave Sounding | 5 | NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-17 |
|
ARGOS-3 (A/DCS)
| Advanced Data Collection System | | Metop-A, Metop-B, Metop-C, NOAA-19, SARAL/AltiKa |
|
ASAR
| Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 | ENVISAT |
|
ASCAT
| Advanced scatterometer | | Metop-A, Metop-B, Metop-C |
|
ASM
| Absolute Scalar Magnetometer | | SWARM |
|
ASTER
| Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer | 14 | Terra |
|
ATLAS
| Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System | 1 | ICESat-2 |
|
ATLID
| Atmospheric Lidar | 1 | EarthCARE |
|
ATMS
| Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder | 22 | JPSS-2, NOAA-20 (JPSS-1), Suomi NPP |
|
ATSR-1
| Along Track Scanning Radiometer | 4 | ERS-1 |
|
ATSR-2
| Along Track Scanning Radiometer | 7 | ERS-2 |
|
AVHRR/2
| Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer | 5 | NOAA-10, NOAA-11, NOAA-12, NOAA-14 |
|
AVHRR/3
| Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer | 6 | Metop-A, Metop-B, Metop-C, NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-17, NOAA-18, NOAA-19 |
|
AVNIR
| Advanced visible near-infrared Radiometer | 5 | ADEOS |
|
AVNIR-2
| Adv. visible and near-infrared radiometer (type 2) | 4 | ALOS |
|
AWiFS
| Advanced Wide Field Sensor | 4 | RESOURCESAT-1 (IRS-P6), RESOURCESAT-2, RESOURCESAT-2A |
|
BEIJING-1-MS
| Standard DMC sensor | 3 | BEIJING-1 |
|
BILSAT-MS
| | 4 | BILSAT |
|
BILSAT-PAN
| | 1 | BILSAT |
|
CAPI
| Cloud Aerosol Polarization Imager | 5 | TANSAT |
|
CCD-TDI
| Selectable | 1 | EROS-B |
|
CCD/TDI
| Selectable-Multispectral posibility | | EROS-C |
|
CERES
| Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System | 3 | Aqua, NOAA-20 (JPSS-1), Terra, TRMM |
|
CERES FM-5
| Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System | 3 | Suomi NPP |
|
Chinese Mapping Telescope
| | 1 | BEIJING-1 |
|
CHRIS
| Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer | 18 | PROBA-1 |
|
CIRC
| Compact Infrared Camera | 1 | ALOS-2 |
|
COBAN
| | 9 | BILSAT |
|
COSI
| Corea SAR Instrument | 1 | KOMPSAT-5 |
|
CPR
| Cloud Profiling Radar | | CloudSat, EarthCARE |
|
CrIMSS
| Cross track Infrared and Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (CrIS + ATMS) | 3 | NOAA-20 (JPSS-1), Suomi NPP |
|
CrIS
| Cross-Track Infrared Sounder | 1305 | JPSS-2, NOAA-20 (JPSS-1), Suomi NPP |
|
CZCS
| Coastal Zone Color Scanner | 6 | NIMBUS-7 |
|
DDMI
| Delay Doppler Mapping Instrument | | CYGNSS |
|
DORIS
| Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite | 2 | CryoSat-2, ENVISAT, Jason-1, Jason-2, SARAL/AltiKa, SPOT 2, SPOT 3, SPOT 4, SPOT 5, TOPEX/Poseidon |
|
DPR
| Dual frequency Precipitation Radar | 2 | GPM Core |
|
E-OP1
| Panchromatic and 4 band color imager | 5 | NigeriaSat - 2 |
|
E-OP2
| Wide area coverage imager | 4 | NigeriaSat - 2 |
|
ECOSTRESS (PHyTIR)
| Prototype HyspIRI Thermal Infrared Radiometer (PHyTIR) | 6 | ECOSTRESS on ISS |
|
EOC
| Electro-Optical Camera | 1 | KOMPSAT-1 |
|
EOS SAT
| | 13 | EOS SAT Constellation |
|
EP TOMS
| Earth Probe-Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer | 6 | Earth Probe |
|
ERB
| Earth Radiation Budget | 13 | NIMBUS-7 |
|
ERBE
| Earth Radiation Budget Experiment | 4 | NOAA-10 |
|
EROS A
| | 1 | EROS-A |
|
ETM
| Enhanced Thematic Mapper | 8 | Landsat 7 |
|
EXIS
| Extreme Ultra Violet and X-ray Irradiance Sensor | | GOES-16 (GOES-EAST), GOES-17 (GOES-WEST), GOES-18, GOES-19 (GOES-U) |
|
FCI
| Flexible Combined Imager | 16 | MTG-I1, MTG-I2, MTG-I3, MTG-I4 |
|
FEI
| FORUM Embedded Imager | 1 | |
|
FLORIS
| Florescence Imaging Spectrometer | 300 | FLEX |
|
FRS
| Strip map mode | | RISAT-1 |
|
FSI
| FORUM Sounding Instrument | | |
|
GEMS
| Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer | 250 | GEO-KOMPSAT-2B |
|
Geoton-1
| Imager on Resurs DK1 | 4 | Resurs DK1 |
|
GERB
| Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget | 2 | Meteosat 8, Meteosat 9, Meteosat-10, Meteosat-11 |
|
GIS-MS
| Visible and NIR | 4 | GeoEye-1 |
|
GIS-PAN
| Panchromatic | 1 | GeoEye-1 |
|
GIU
| Glimmer Multispectral Imager (night) | 4 | SDGSAT-1 |
|
GLAS
| Geoscience Laser Altimeter System | 2 | ICESat |
|
GLI
| Global Imager | 36 | ADEOS-II |
|
GLM
| Geostationary Lightning Mapper | 1 | GOES-16 (GOES-EAST), GOES-17 (GOES-WEST), GOES-18, GOES-19 (GOES-U) |
|
GMI
| Microwave Radar Instrument | 13 | GPM Core |
|
GOCI
| Geostationary Ocean Color Imager | 8 | COMS-1 |
|
GOCI-II
| Geostationary Ocean Color Imager-II | 13 | GEO-KOMPSAT-2B |
|
GOME
| Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment | 6 | ERS-2 |
|
GOME-2
| Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 | 4 | Metop-A, Metop-B, Metop-C |
|
GOMOS
| Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars | 3 | ENVISAT |
|
GUVI
| Global Ultraviolet Imager | | TIMED |
|
Harmony - receive-only SAR
| Receive-only C-band SAR - Alterations to solid earth, the air-sea interface, and cryosphere | | Harmony-A, Harmony-B |
|
Harmony - TIR
| Motion vectors of clouds | | Harmony-A, Harmony-B |
|
HCS
| High Sensitivity Camera | 1 | SAC-C |
|
HEPD
| High Energy Particle Detector | 7 | KOMPSAT-1 |
|
HiRAIS
| High Resolution Advanced Imaging System | 5 | Geosat-2 (Deimos-2) |
|
HIRDLS
| High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder | 21 | AURA |
|
HiRI
| High Resolution Optical Imager | 5 | Pleiades 1A, Pleiades 1B |
|
HIRS/2
| High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder | 20 | NOAA-10, NOAA-11, NOAA-14 |
|
HIRS/3
| High Resolution Infrared Sounder | 20 | NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-17 |
|
HIRS/4
| High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder | 20 | Metop-A, Metop-B, Metop-C, NOAA-18, NOAA-19 |
|
HRC
| High Resolution Camera | 1 | PROBA-1 |
|
HRCC
| High Resolution CCD Camera | 5 | CBERS-1, CBERS-2 |
|
HRG
| High Resolution Geometric | 4 | SPOT 5 |
|
HRMX
| High Resolution Multi-Spectral on CartoSat-2 Series | 4 | CartoSat-2 Series (2C), CartoSat-2 Series (2D), Cartosat-2 Series (2E), Cartosat-2 Series (2F) |
|
HRS
| High Resolution Stereoscopic | 1 | SPOT 5 |
|
HRTC
| High Resolution Technological Camera | 1 | SAC-C |
|
HRV
| High Resolution Visible | 4 | SPOT 1, SPOT 2, SPOT 3 |
|
HRVIR
| High Resolution Visible and Infra-red | 4 | SPOT 4 |
|
HSB
| Humidity Sounder for Brazil | 4 | Aqua |
|
HSI
| Hyperspectral Instrument | 232 | EnMAP |
|
HSRS
| Hot Spot Recognition Sensor System | 2 | BIRD |
|
Hyperion
| High resolution hyperspectral imager with 220 spectral bands (from 0.4 to 2.5 ยตm) | 220 | EO-1 |
|
HyS-SWIR
| Hyperspectral SWIR | 150 | EOS-3 (GISAT-1) |
|
HyS-VNIR
| Hyperspectral VNIR | 60 | EOS-3 (GISAT-1), GISAT-2 - GEO Imaging Satellite |
|
HySI
| Hyper Spectral Camera with 64 fixed bands | 64 | IMS-1 |
|
HysIS
| Hyperspectral bands 10 nm | 316 | HysIS |
|
IASI
| Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer | 3 | Metop-A, Metop-B, Metop-C |
|
IASI-NG
| Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer - Next Generation | 16921 | MetOp-SG A1, Metop-SG A2, Metop-SG A3 |
|
ICEYE X4 X5
| X-band SAR | | ICEYE-X4, ICEYE-X5 |
|
ICEYE-X1
| SAR 60 MHz | | ICEYE-X1 |
|
ICEYE-X2
| SAR 300 mHz, 3 modes | | ICEYE-X2 |
|
ICI
| Ice and Cloud Imager | 11 | Metop-SG B1, Metop-SG B2, Metop-SG B3 |
|
IGOR
| Radio occultation - Sounder (COSMIC) | 1 | FORMOSAT-3 / COSMIC |
|
IIS
| Infrared Imaging System | 1 | KOMPSAT-3A |
|
IKAR-DELTA
| | 3 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
IKAR-N
| | 5 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
IKAR-P
| | 2 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
ILAS
| Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer | 2 | ADEOS |
|
ILAS-II
| Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer-II | 4 | ADEOS-II |
|
Imager (1)
| Imager on GOES 8-11 | 5 | GOES-10, GOES-11, GOES-8, GOES-9 |
|
Imager (2)
| Imager on GOES 12-15 | 5 | GOES-12, GOES-13, GOES-14, GOES-15 |
|
Imager (on MTSAT-2)
| Imager on MTSAT-2 | 5 | MTSAT-2 |
|
Imager(INSAT)
| Improved design of VHRR/2 (Very High Resolution Radiometer) | 6 | INSAT-3D |
|
IMG
| Interferometer Monitor for Greenhouse Gases | 1 | ADEOS |
|
IMM
| Instrument for Magnetic Measurements | | TARANIS |
|
IMS
| Ionosphere Measurement Sensor | 1 | KOMPSAT-1 |
|
IPDA LIDAR
| Integrated Path Differential Absorption LIDAR | 2 | MERLIN |
|
IPEI
| Ionosphere Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument | 4 | FORMOSAT-1 |
|
IR-MSS
| Infrared Multispectral scanner | 4 | CBERS-1, CBERS-2 |
|
IRMSS-2
| Infrared Multispectral Scanner-2 | 4 | CBERS-3, CBERS-4 |
|
IRS
| Infrared Sounder | 1720 | MTG-S1, MTG-S2 |
|
ISTOK-1
| Infrared Spectrometer | 64 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
ISUAL
| Imager of Sprites and Upper Atmospheric Lightning | | FORMOSAT-2 |
|
JAMI
| Japanese Advanced meteorological Imager | 5 | MTSAT-1R |
|
JMR
| Jason-1 Microwave Radiometer | 3 | Jason-1 |
|
KBR
| K-band Ranging System | 2 | GRACE, GRACE-FO |
|
Kompsat-MSC
| B&W panchromatic, MSS and merged 1m resolution images | 4 | KOMPSAT-2 |
|
KVR-1000
| | 1 | Cosmos |
|
LAC
| LEISA Atmospheric Corrector, corrects high spatial resolution multispectral data for atmospheric effects on surface reflectance | 256 | EO-1 |
|
LandIS
| Landsat Next Instrument Suite | 26 | Landsat Next |
|
Laser Reflector
| | | CryoSat-2 |
|
LBI
| SAR - L band | | SAOCOM-1A, SAOCOM-1B |
|
LI
| Lightning Imager | | MTG-I1, MTG-I2, MTG-I3, MTG-I4 |
|
LIMS
| Limb infrared monitor of the Atmosphere | 6 | NIMBUS-7 |
|
LIS
| Lightning Imaging sensor | 1 | TRMM |
|
LISS 1
| Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 4 | IRS-1A, IRS-1B |
|
LISS 2
| Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 4 | IRS-1A, IRS-1B, IRS-P2 |
|
LISS 3 (IRS1C/1D)
| Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 4 | IRS-1C, IRS-1D |
|
LISS-3 (RESOURCESAT)
| Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 4 | RESOURCESAT-1 (IRS-P6), RESOURCESAT-2, RESOURCESAT-2A |
|
LISS-4
| Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 3 | RESOURCESAT-1 (IRS-P6), RESOURCESAT-2, RESOURCESAT-2A |
|
LRA (Jason)
| Laser Retroreflector Array | | Jason-2 |
|
LRA (Saral)
| Laser Retro-reflector Array | | SARAL/AltiKa |
|
LSTM
| Land Surface Temperature Radiometer | 11 | LSTM-A, LSTM-B |
|
MAC
| PAN + MS | 5 | RazakSAT |
|
MADRAS
| Microwave Imager | | MEGHA-TROPIQUES |
|
MAESTRO
| Measurements of Aerosol Extinction in the Stratosphere and Troposphere Retrieved by Occultation | | SCISAT |
|
MCP
| Micro Camera and Photometer | | TARANIS |
|
MERIS
| Medium Resolution Imaging Specrometer Instrument | 15 | ENVISAT |
|
MESSR
| Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer | 4 | MOS-1, MOS-1b |
|
METimage
| Meteorological Imager | 20 | MetOp-SG A1, Metop-SG A2, Metop-SG A3 |
|
MEXIC
| Multi Experimental Interface Controller | | TARANIS |
|
MHS
| Microwave Humidity Sounder | 5 | Metop-A, Metop-B, Metop-C, NOAA-18, NOAA-19 |
|
MI
| Meteorological Imager | 5 | COMS-1 |
|
MII
| Multispectral Imager (day) | 7 | SDGSAT-1 |
|
MIPAS
| Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding | 5 | ENVISAT |
|
MIRAS
| Microwave Imaging Radiometer Apeture Synthesis | | SMOS |
|
MIS
| Microwave Imager/Sounder | | |
|
MISR
| Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer | 4 | Terra |
|
MLS
| Microwave Limb Sounder | 5 | AURA |
|
MMRS
| MultiSpectral Medium Resolution Scanner | 5 | SAC-C |
|
MMSAR
| Multi Mode SAR | | TecSAR |
|
MODIS
| Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (PFM on Terra, FM1 on Aqua) | 36 | Aqua, Terra |
|
MOMS-2P
| Modular Optoelectronic Multispectral Scanner | 4 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
MOPITT
| Measurement of carbon monoxide in the troposphere | 64 | Terra |
|
MOS
| Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer | 18 | IRS-P3 |
|
MOS-A
| Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer | 4 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
MOS-B
| Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer | 13 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
MRS, CRS
| Scan SAR mode | | RISAT-1 |
|
MS (THEOS)
| Derived from SPOT camera, has thermo-elastic stability | 4 | THEOS (Thaichote) |
|
MS Camera
| Multispectral Camera | | Kanopus-V1 |
|
MS Camera
| Multispectral Camera for three bands | | Kanopus-V1 |
|
MSI
| Multispectral Imager (Sentinel-2) | 13 | Sentinel-2A, Sentinel-2B, Sentinel-2C, Sentinel-2D |
|
MSI-EarthCARE
| Multispectral Imager (EarthCARE) | 7 | EarthCARE |
|
MSMR
| Multifrequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer | 4 | OceanSat-1 |
|
MSR
| Microwave Scanning Radiometer | 2 | MOS-1, MOS-1b |
|
MSS (Kanopus-V)
| Multispectral Imaging System | 4 | KANOPUS-V3, KANOPUS-V4, KANOPUS-V5, KANOPUS-V6 |
|
MSS (LS 1-3)
| Multispectral Scanner - Landsat 1,2,3 | 5 | Landsat 1, Landsat 2, Landsat 3 |
|
MSS (LS 4-5)
| Multispectral Scanner - Landsat 4,5 | 4 | Landsat 4, Landsat 5 |
|
MSU
| Microwave Sounding Unit | 4 | NOAA-10, NOAA-11, NOAA-12, NOAA-14 |
|
MSU-E
| Microwave Sounding Unit | 3 | RESURS-O1-3 |
|
MSU-E1
| | 3 | RESURS-O-1 |
|
MSU-E2
| | 3 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
MSU-GS
| Multispectral Scanner - Geostationary | 5 | Elektro-L |
|
MSU-MR
| Low-resolution Multispectral Scanner | 6 | Meteor-M N2-2, Meteor-M1, Meteor-M2 |
|
MSU-SK
| | 5 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
MSU-SK (Resurs)
| | 5 | RESURS-O1-3 |
|
MSU-SK1
| | 5 | RESURS-O-1 |
|
MTI
| Multi-spectral Thermal Imager | 16 | MTI |
|
MUX
| Multispectral Camera Regular (MUX) | 4 | CBERS-4A |
|
MUXCam
| Multispectral Camera | 4 | CBERS-3, CBERS-4 |
|
MVIRI
| Meteosat Visible and Infrared Imager | 3 | Meteosat 5, Meteosat 6, Meteosat 7 |
|
MVISR
| Multichannel Visible and IR Scan Radiometer | 10 | Fengyun-1C/1D |
|
MWI
| MicroWave Imager | 26 | Metop-SG B1, Metop-SG B2, Metop-SG B3 |
|
MWR
| Microwave Radiometer | 2 | ENVISAT, ERS-1, ERS-2, Sentinel-3A, Sentinel-3B, Sentinel-3C, Sentinel-3D |
|
MWRI
| Microwave Radiation Imager | | FengYun-3A |
|
MWS
| MicroWave Sounder | 24 | MetOp-SG A1, Metop-SG A2, Metop-SG A3 |
|
Mx
| Four band multispectral CCD camera | 4 | IMS-1 |
|
MX (Cartosat-3)
| Multispectral VNIR | 4 | CartoSat-3 |
|
MX-LWIR
| Multispectral Long-Wave Infrared | 6 | EOS-3 (GISAT-1), GISAT-2 - GEO Imaging Satellite |
|
MX-VNIR
| Multispectral Visual Near-Infrared | 6 | EOS-3 (GISAT-1), GISAT-2 - GEO Imaging Satellite |
|
NAOMI
| New AstroSat Optical Modular Instrument | 5 | AlSat-2A, AlSat-2B, SPOT 6, SPOT 7, VNREDSat-1A |
|
NigeriaSat-1
| Standard DMC sensor | 3 | NigeriaSat - 1 |
|
NovaSAR-1
| | | NovaSAR-1 |
|
NSCAT
| NASA Scatterometer | 1 | ADEOS |
|
OCI
| Ocean Color Imager | 7 | FORMOSAT-1 |
|
OCI (on PACE)
| Ocean Color Instrument | | PACE |
|
OCM
| Ocean Color Monitor | 8 | OceanSat-1, OceanSat-2, OceanSat-3 |
|
OCO-2
| Spectrometers | 3 | OCO-2 |
|
OCO-3
| on ISS | 3 | OCO-3 on ISS |
|
OCTS
| Ocean Color and Temperature scanner | 12 | ADEOS |
|
OIS
| Optical Imaging System | 3 | RASAT |
|
OLCI
| Ocean and Land Color Instrument | 21 | Sentinel-3A, Sentinel-3B, Sentinel-3C, Sentinel-3D |
|
OLI
| Operational Land Imager | 9 | Landsat 8 |
|
OLI-2
| Operational Land Imager 2 | 9 | Landsat 9 |
|
OLS
| Operational Linescan System | 3 | DMSP-F16 |
|
OMI
| Ozone Monitoring Instrument | 3 | AURA |
|
OMPS
| Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite | | JPSS-2, NOAA-20 (JPSS-1), Suomi NPP |
|
OPS
| Optical Sensor | 8 | JERS-1 |
|
OPS (ASNARO)
| High Performance Optical sensor | 7 | ASNARO-1 |
|
Optical Imaging
| on GOKTURK-2 | 6 | GOKTURK-2 |
|
Orbview-3
| | 5 | Orbview-3 |
|
OSA
| Optical Sensor Assembly | 5 | IKONOS, IKONOS-1 |
|
OSCAT
| Radar Scatterometer | | OceanSat-2, OceanSat-3, ScatSat-1 |
|
OSIRIS
| Optical Spectograph and Infrared Imaging System | | ODIN |
|
OSMI
| Ocean Scanning Multi-spectral Imager | 8 | KOMPSAT-1 |
|
OTD
| Optical Transient Detector | 1 | OrbView-1 |
|
OZON-M
| | 4 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
PALSAR
| L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 | ALOS |
|
PALSAR-2
| L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar-2 | 1 | ALOS-2 |
|
PALSAR-3
| L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar-3 | 1 | ALOS-4 |
|
PAMELA
| | 4 | Resurs DK1 |
|
PAN (Cartosat-2 Series)
| PAN | 1 | CartoSat-2 Series (2C), CartoSat-2 Series (2D), Cartosat-2 Series (2E), Cartosat-2 Series (2F) |
|
PAN (Cartosat-3)
| Panchromatic Camera | 1 | CartoSat-3 |
|
PAN (IRS)
| Panchromatic camera | 1 | IRS-1C, IRS-1D |
|
PAN (THEOS)
| Panchromatic camera | 1 | THEOS (Thaichote) |
|
PAN C (Cartosat)
| Panchromatic camera | 1 | CartoSat-2A |
|
PAN Camera
| Panchromatic | 1 | CartoSat-2, Kanopus-V1 |
|
PAN Camera
| Panchromatic Camera | 1 | CartoSat-2, Kanopus-V1 |
|
PAN Cartosat-2B
| Panchromatic camera | 1 | CartoSat-2B |
|
PAN-Aft
| Panchromatic-Aft pointing | 1 | CartoSat-1 (IRS-P5) |
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PAN-Fore
| Panchromatic-Forward pointing | 1 | CartoSat-1 (IRS-P5) |
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PanMUX
| Panchromatic and Multispectral Camera | 4 | CBERS-3, CBERS-4 |
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PlanetScope
| Planet.com, Dove satellites | 4 | Planet - Dove, Planet - Dove, Flock 1c, Planet - Dove, Flock 2k, Planet - Dove, Flock 2p, Planet - Dove, Flock 3k, Planet - Dove, Flock 3m, Planet - Dove, Flock 3p, Planet - Dove, Flock 3p', Planet - Dove, Flock 3r, Planet - Dove, Flock 3s, Planet - Dove, Flock 4a |
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Pleiades Neo
| Mono, stereo and tri-stereo acquisition capability | 7 | Pleiades Neo 3, Pleiades Neo 4, Pleiades Neo 5, Pleiades Neo 6 |
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POAM-II
| Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement | 9 | SPOT 3 |
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POAM-III
| Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement | 9 | SPOT 4 |
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POLDER
| Polarization and directionality of the Earth's reflectance | 15 | ADEOS, ADEOS-II, Parasol |
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Poseidon-2
| Altimeter | 2 | Jason-1 |
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Poseidon-3
| Altimeter | | Jason-2 |
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Poseidon-3B
| Altimeter | 2 | Jason-3 |
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Poseidon-4
| Radar Altimeter Ku/C | 2 | Sentinel-6A/Jason-CS-A, Sentinel-6B/Jason-CS-B, Sentinel-6C |
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PR
| Precipitation Radar | 2 | TRMM |
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PRISM
| Three panchromatic sensors for Stereomapping | 1 | ALOS |
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PRISMA
| Prism spectrometer | 240 | PRISMA |
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PSS (Kanopus-V)
| Panchromatic Imaging System | 1 | KANOPUS-V3, KANOPUS-V4, KANOPUS-V5, KANOPUS-V6 |
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Quickbird
| High resolution: Pan: 61 cm (nadir) to 72 cm (25ยบ off-nadir), MS: 2.44 m to 2.88 m | 4 | Quickbird |
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R-400
| | 1 | PRIRODA-MIR |
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RA
| Radio Altimeter | 2 | ERS-1, ERS-2 |
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RA-2
| Radio Altimeter | 3 | ENVISAT |
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Radar Altimeter
| | 1 | Geosat Follow-On (GFO) |
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RADARSAT 2
| Radar | | RADARSAT-2 |
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RBI
| Radiation Budget Instrument (cancelled Jan 2018) | 3 | JPSS-2 |
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RBV
| Return Beam Vidicon Camera | 4 | Landsat 1 |
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REIS
| Records in five spectral bands on VIR and NIR | 5 | RapidEye |
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RIS
| Reflector in space | 1 | ADEOS |
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ROSA
| Radio Occultation sounder for Atmospheric studies | | OceanSat-2 |
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RSI Formosat-2
| Remote Sensing Instrument | 5 | FORMOSAT-2 |
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RSI Formosat-5 CMOS
| Remote Sensing Instrument | 4 | FORMOSAT-5 |
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S-VISSR
| S-Visible and IR Spin Scan Radiometer | 4 | Fengyun-2A, Fengyun-2B |
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SABER
| Multi channel radiometer | | TIMED |
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SAC-D
| L-band radiometer /Scatterometer | | SAC-D (Aquarius) |
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SAM II
| Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement | 1 | NIMBUS-7 |
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SAMS
| Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder | 9 | NIMBUS-7 |
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SAPHIR
| Microwave Sounding Instrument | | MEGHA-TROPIQUES |
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SAR (JERS-1)
| Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 | JERS-1 |
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SAR (Seasat)
| Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 | Seasat |
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SAR 2000
| RADAR | 1 | COSMO-SkyMed |
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SAR 2000 - SG
| Cosmo-Skymed Second Generation | 1 | COSMO-SkyMed 2nd Gen (CSG-1), COSMO-SkyMed 2nd Gen (CSG-2), COSMO-SkyMed 2nd Gen (CSG-3), COSMO-SkyMed 2nd Gen (CSG-4) |
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SAR-C (CHORUS-C)
| SAR-C on CHORUS-C | 1 | CHORUS-C |
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SAR-C (EOS-4/RISAT)
| SAR-C on EOS-4 | | EOS-4 (RISAT-1A) |
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SAR-C (RCM)
| SAR-C on RADARSAT Constellation Mission | | RADARSAT Constellation Mission |
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SAR-C Radarsat1
| Synthetic Aperture Radar on RADARSAT-1 | 1 | RADARSAT-1 |
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SAR-C Sentinel1
| C-band SAR on Sentinel-1A/Sentinel-1B | 1 | Sentinel-1A, Sentinel-1B, Sentinel-1C, Sentinel-1D |
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SAR-L (NISAR)
| SAR-L on NISAR | | NISAR |
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SAR-L TandemL
| L-band SAR (on Tandem-L) | 1 | Tandem-L |
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SAR-P
| Measuring carbon biomass, on ESA's BIOMASS | | BIOMASS |
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SAR-S (NISAR)
| SAR-S on NISAR | | NISAR |
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SAR-X
| SAR-X on TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X | | TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X |
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SAR-X (Asnaro-2)
| Light weight and low cost SAR-X with high resolution and wide swath | | ASNARO-2 |
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SAR-X (Capella)
| SAR-X on Capella, 9.4 - 9.9 GHz, Single Polarization (HH or VV) | | Capella |
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SAR-X (CHORUS-X)
| SAR-X on CHORUS-X | 1 | CHORUS-X |
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SAR-X (PAZ)
| SAR-X on PAZ | | PAZ |
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SASS
| Seasat-A Satellite Scatterometer | 1 | Seasat |
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SBUV/2
| Solar Backscatter Ultra violet instrument | 12 | NOAA-11, NOAA-12, NOAA-14, NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-17, NOAA-18, NOAA-19 |
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SBUV/TOMS
| Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet/Total Ozone Mapping-failed in 1993 | 6 | NIMBUS-7 |
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SCA
| Scatterometer | | Metop-SG B1, Metop-SG B2, Metop-SG B3 |
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SCAT
| Wind Scatterometer | 1 | CFOSAT |
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SCIAMACHY
| Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography | 8 | ENVISAT |
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SeaWiFS
| Sea viewing Wide Field Sensor | 8 | Orbview-2 |
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Seawinds
| | 1 | ADEOS-II, QuikSCAT |
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SEE
| Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Experiment | | TIMED |
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SEM
| Space Environment Monitor | | GOES-13, GOES-14 |
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SEVIRI
| Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager | 12 | Meteosat 8, Meteosat 9, Meteosat-10, Meteosat-11 |
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SGLI
| Second Generation Global Imager | 19 | GCOM-C1 |
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SIM
| Spectral Irradiance Monitor | 1 | SORCE |
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SIR-C
| Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C | 1 | SRTM |
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SIRAL
| SAR/Interferometric Radar Altimeter | | CryoSat-2 |
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Skybox-Image
| Sub-meter spatial resolution | 5 | SkySat-1, SkySat-2 |
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Skybox-Image (Skybox 3-7)
| Sub-meter spatial resolution | 5 | SkySat-3, SkySat-4-7 |
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Skybox-Video
| High-definition video | 1 | SkySat-1, SkySat-2, SkySat-3, SkySat-4-7 |
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SkySat
| Sub-meter spatial resolution | 5 | SkySat 14-15, SkySat-8-13 |
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SLIM6
| Surrey Linear Imager Multispectral | 3 | Geosat-1 (Deimos-1), NigeriaSat - X, UK-DMC-2 |
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SLSTR
| Sea and Land Surface Temparature Radiometer | 11 | Sentinel-3A, Sentinel-3B, Sentinel-3C, Sentinel-3D |
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SMAP radar
| L-band radar (VV, HH, and HV polarizations) | 2 | SMAP |
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SMAP radiometer
| Passive Microwave Radiometer | 1 | SMAP |
|
SMMR
| Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer | 5 | NIMBUS-7, Seasat |
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SOLSTICE AB
| SOlar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment | 1 | SORCE |
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Sounder
| Sounder on GOES | 19 | GOES-10, GOES-11, GOES-12, GOES-13, GOES-14, GOES-15, GOES-8, GOES-9 |
|
Sounder INSAT3D
| For vertical profiles of temperatures, humidity and integrated ozone | 19 | INSAT-3D |
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SpaceEye-T VVHR
| | 5 | SpaceEye-T |
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SpaceView 110 Imaging System
| formerly GIS-2, GeoEye Imaging System-2 | 5 | WorldView-4 |
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SpaceView 24
| on BlackSky 1-4 by Harris | 4 | BlackSky Global 1, BlackSky Global 2, BlackSky Global 3, BlackSky Global 4 |
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SRAL
| SAR Radar Altimeter | 2 | Sentinel-3A, Sentinel-3B, Sentinel-3C, Sentinel-3D |
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SSJ/5
| Preciptating Particle Spectrometer | | DMSP-F16 |
|
SSMIS
| Special Sensor Micowave Imager/Sounder | 4 | DMSP-F16 |
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SSU
| Stratospheric Sounder Unit | 3 | NOAA-11, NOAA-14 |
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SSULI
| Ultraviolet Limb Imager | | DMSP-F16 |
|
SSUSI
| Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager | | DMSP-F16 |
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STR
| Scanning Television Radiometer | 3 | Electro-1 (GOMS) |
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SUVI
| Solar Ultra Violet Imager | 6 | GOES-16 (GOES-EAST), GOES-17 (GOES-WEST), GOES-18, GOES-19 (GOES-U) |
|
SWIM
| Surface Waves Investigation and Monitoring instrument | 1 | CFOSAT |
|
SXI
| Solar X-ray Imager | | GOES-13, GOES-14 |
|
TANSO - CAI
| Thermal And NIR Sensor for carbon Observation - Cloud & Aerosal Imager | 4 | GOSAT |
|
TANSO - FTS
| Thermal And NIR Sensor for carbon Observation - Fourier Transform Spectrometer | 4 | GOSAT |
|
TANSO CAI-2
| Cloud and Aerosol Imager 2 | 10 | GOSAT-2 |
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TANSO FTS-2
| Fourier Transform Spectrometer 2 | 5 | GOSAT-2 |
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TEMPO
| Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution | 666 | TEMPO |
|
TES
| Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer | 12 | AURA |
|
TGRS
| Radio Occultation - Sounder (COSMIC-2) | 1 | FORMOSAT-7 / COSMIC-2 |
|
THIR
| Temperature Humidity Infrared Radiometer | 2 | NIMBUS-7 |
|
TIDI
| Timed Doppler Interferometer | | TIMED |
|
TIM
| Total Irradiance Monitor | 1 | SORCE |
|
TIP
| Tiny Ionosphere Photometer | | FORMOSAT-3 / COSMIC |
|
TIR
| Total Irradiance Monitor (Radiometer) | | GLORY |
|
TIRS
| Thermal Infrared Sensor | 2 | Landsat 8 |
|
TIRS (PREFIRE)
| High-resolution nadir-scanning IR spectrometer | 64 | PREFIRE |
|
TIRS-2
| Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 | 2 | Landsat 9 |
|
TIS
| Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (day+ night) | 3 | SDGSAT-1 |
|
TK-350
| | 1 | Cosmos |
|
TM
| Thematic Mapper | 7 | Landsat 4, Landsat 5 |
|
TMI
| TRMM Microwave Imager | 5 | TRMM |
|
TMR
| TOPEX Microwave Radiometer | 3 | TOPEX/Poseidon |
|
TOMS
| Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (see also SBUV/TOMS) | 6 | ADEOS |
|
TopSat
| | 1 | TopSat |
|
Travers SAR
| | 2 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
Tropomi
| Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument, measures Ozone O3, Nitrogen Dioxide NO2, Sulfur Dioxide SO2, Formaldehyde HCHO, Carbon Monoxide CO, Methane CH4 | 8 | Sentinel-5P |
|
TV Camera
| | 1 | PRIRODA-MIR |
|
UHD Camera
| Ultra High Definition camera (video up to 25fps and stills) | 3 | VividX2 |
|
UK-DMC
| Standard DMC sensor | 3 | UK-DMC-1 |
|
UVN (Sentinel-4)
| Ultraviolet, Visible and Near-Infrared Sounder | 598 | MTG-S1, MTG-S2 |
|
UVNS (Sentinel-5)
| Ultra-violet, Visible and Near-infrared Sounder, mapping O3, NO2, SO2, HCHO, CO, CH4 and aerosol optical depth | 3936 | MetOp-SG A1, Metop-SG A2, Metop-SG A3 |
|
VEGETATION
| | 4 | SPOT 4, SPOT 5 |
|
VFM
| Vector Field Magnometer | | SWARM |
|
VGT-P
| VEGETATION instrument on PROBA-V | 4 | PROBA-V |
|
VHRI-100
| Very High Resolution Imager 100, aka SSTL-300 S1 Imager | 5 | DMC-3/TripleSat, Vision-1 (SSTL - S1-4) |
|
VHRR
| Very High Resolution Radiometer | 2 | INSAT-2A, INSAT-2B, INSAT-2E |
|
VIIRS
| Visible Infrared Imager and Radiometer Suite | | JPSS-2, NOAA-20 (JPSS-1), Suomi NPP |
|
VIRR
| Visible and IR Radiometer | 2 | Seasat |
|
VIRR (FY-3)
| Visible and Infrared Radiometer | 10 | FengYun-3A, FengYun-3B, FengYun-3C |
|
VIRS
| Visible and Infra red scanner | 5 | TRMM |
|
VISSR (GMS)
| Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer | 4 | GMS-5 |
|
VSSC
| Venus Super Spectral Camera | 12 | VENUS |
|
VTIR
| Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer | 4 | MOS-1, MOS-1b |
|
WAF-P
| Wide-Angle Fabry-Perot | | GHGSat - C1, GHGSat - C2, GHGSat - C3, GHGSat - C4, GHGSat - C5, GHGSat - D |
|
WAOSS-B
| Wide-Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner | 2 | BIRD |
|
Water Vapor Radiometer
| | 2 | Geosat Follow-On (GFO) |
|
WFI
| Wide field imager | 2 | CBERS-1, CBERS-2 |
|
WFI (CBERS-4A)
| Wide Field Camera (WFI) | 4 | CBERS-4A |
|
WFI-2
| Wide Field Imager - 2 | 4 | CBERS-3, CBERS-4 |
|
WiFS
| Wide Field Sensor | 3 | IRS-1C, IRS-1D, IRS-P3 |
|
WindSat
| | 5 | Coriolis |
|
WISH
| Wide-swath and high-resolution optical imager | 7 | ALOS-3 |
|
WorldView-Legion
| Worldview Legion Instrument by Raytheon | 8 | WorldView Legion 1-2, WorldView Legion 3-4, WorldView Legion 5-6, WorldView Legion 7-8 |
|
WPM
| Multispectral camera and Panchromatic Wide - Scan (WPM) | 5 | CBERS-4A |
|
WV-3 CAVIS
| WorldView-3: Cloud, Aerosol, water Vapor, Ice, Snow | 12 | WorldView-3 |
|
WV-3 MSS
| WorldView-3: Multi spectral sensor | 8 | WorldView-3 |
|
WV-3 PAN
| WorldView-3: Panchromatic sensor | 1 | WorldView-3 |
|
WV-3 SWIR
| WorldView-3: Shortwave Infrared sensor | 8 | WorldView-3 |
|
WV110
| Standard 4 colors + New 4 colors | 8 | WorldView-2 |
|
WV60
| PAN band for WorldView -2 | 1 | WorldView-2 |
|
X-SAR
| Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 | SRTM |
|
X-SAR (RISAT-2x)
| X-band SAR on RISAT-2 series | | EOS-1 (RISAT-2BR2), RISAT-2, RISAT-2B, RISAT-2BR1 |
|
XGRE
| X-ray and Gamma Relativistic Electron detector | | TARANIS |
|
XPS
| XUV Photometer | 1 | SORCE |
|
XSAR
| X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar | | KOMPSAT-6 |
|
YaoGan-5
| | | YaoGan - 5 |
