Course EO Satellite Missions Table
Mission Agency Programme Key Instruments Applications Further Information
Biological and physical
AIRS, AMSR-E, AMSU-A,
Aqua NASA/JAXA/INPE NASAs Earth Observing processes, surface Aqua
CERES, HiRDLS, HSB, MODIS
System temperatures of land and ocean
Aquarius L-Band Ocean surface salinity,
Aquarius CONAE/NASA NASAs Earth Observing Scatterometer, Aquarius L- atmospheric and environmental Aquarius
System Band Radiometer parameters
Chemistry and dynamics of
NASA/NSOFMI/ NASAs Earth Observing HiRDLS, MLS (EOS-Aura), Earths atmosphere from the Aura
Aura
NIVR/UKSA System OMI, TES ground through the
stratosphere
ESAs Living Planet Programme Forest biomass monitoring
Biomass ESA P-Band SAR
CBERS Programme DCS , IRS, MUX, PAN Earth resources, environmental
CBERS 4 INPE/CRESDA
(CBERS), WFI-2 monitoring, land surface
ESAs Living Planet Programme DORIS-NG, Laser Reflectors CryoSat-2
CryoSat-2 ESA Ice thickness
(ESA), SIRAL
Disaster Monitoring Mapping, crop monitoring,
UK- DMC2 UKSA Constellation SLIM-6 environmental resource and
disaster management
AATSR, ASAR, ASAR (image Physical oceanography, land
Envisat ESA Envisat Programme mode), ASAR (wave mode), surface, ice and snow, Envisat
DORIS-NG, MERIS, MIPAS, atmospheric chemistry,
Course EO Satellite Missions Table
Mission Agency Programme Key Instruments Applications Further Information
MWR, RA-2, SCIAMACHY atmospheric dynamics
AMI/SAR/Image, Earth resources, physical
ERS-1 ESA ESA AMI/SAR/Wave, oceanography, land, geodesy, ERS-1
AMI/Scatterometer, ATSR atmosphere
AMI/SAR/Image, Earth resources, physical
ERS-2 ESA ESA AMI/SAR/Wave, oceanography, land, geodesy, ERS-2
AMI/Scatterometer, ATSR/M atmosphere
GEDI (on NASAs Earth Observing Forest canopy structure, carbon
NASA LIDAR
board ISS) System cycle
ESAs Living Planet Programme EGG, GPS (ESA), Laser Ocean circulation, geodesy, GOCE
GOCE ESA
Reflectors (ESA), LRR, SSTI solid earth physics
GOSAT Project Observations of greenhouse GOSAT
GOSAT JAXA/MOE/NIES TANSO-CAI, TANSO-FTS
gases
NASAs Earth Observing DORIS-NG, JMR, LRA, Physical oceanography, Jason-1
Jason-1 NASA/CNES System POSEIDON-2 (SSALT-2), geodesy/gravity, climate
TRSR monitoring, marine meteorology
NASAs Earth Observing Earth resources, land surface, Landsat-7
Enhanced Thematic Mapper
Landsat-7 USGS/NASA System environmental monitoring,
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agriculture and forestry
Earth resources, land surface,
Landsat-8 USGS/NASA NASAs Earth Observing OLI, TIRS environmental monitoring, Landsat-8
System agriculture and forestry
Course EO Satellite Missions Table
Mission Agency Programme Key Instruments Applications Further Information
EUMETSAT/NOAA MetOp Programme MetOp-A
MetOp-A IASI Meteorology, climatology
/CNES/ESA
EUMETSAT/NOAA MetOp Programme MetOp-B
MetOp-B IASI Meteorology, climatology
/CNES/ESA
EUMETSAT Programme Meteosat-10
Meteosat-10 EUMETSAT/ESA GERB, MSG Comms, SEVIRI Meteorology, climatology
NASAs Earth Observing High resolution carbon dioxide OCO-2
OCO-2 NASA Spectrometer
System measurements
NASAs Earth Observing SeaWiFS (Sea-Viewing Wide Global ocean bio-optical
OrbView-2 GeoEye
System Field-of-View Sensor) properties
NASAs Earth Observing Physical oceanography, OSTM/Jason-2
OSTM/Jason NASA/NOAA/CNE AMR, DORIS-NG, GPSP, JMR,
System geodesy/gravity, climate,
-2 S/EUMETSAT LRA, POSEIDON-3
marine meteorology
ESAs Proba Programme Vegetation Imaging multi- Map land cover and vegetation Proba-V
Proba-V ESA
spectral radiometers growth
Microwave Imaging
Map soil moisture and ocean
SMOS ESA ESAs Living Planet Programme Radiometer using Aperture SMOS
salinity
Synthesis (MIRAS)
ACC, ASM, EFI, GPS Receiver
Swarm ESA ESAs Living Planet Programme (Swarm), Laser Reflectors Earths geomagnetic field Swarm
(ESA), STR, VFM
Course EO Satellite Missions Table
Mission Agency Programme Key Instruments Applications Further Information
Copernicus Continuity of C-Band SAR data Sentinel-1
Sentinel-1 ESA C-Band SAR
for operational use
Copernicus Supporting land monitoring Sentinel-2
Sentinel-2 ESA MSI (Sentinel-2)
related services
Copernicus Global land and ocean Sentinel-3
Sentinel-3 ESA OLCI, SLSTR, SRAL
monitoring services
Sentinel-4 Copernicus Atmospheric composition and Sentinel-4
ESA UVN (Sentinel-4)
air quality monitoring services
Sentinel-5 Copernicus In early stages of mission Sentinel-5
ESA UVNS (Sentinel-5)
definition
Copernicus Supporting global atmospheric Sentinel-5p
Sentinel-5p ESA UVNS (Sentinel-5p) composition and air quality
monitoring services
Copernicus AMR-C, DORIS-NG, LRA
Sentinel-6 High-precision ocean
ESA (Sentinel-6), Poseidon-4
topography service
Altimeter, TriG
The SPOT Programme Land surface, agriculture and
DORIS (SPOT), HRVIR,
SPOT-4 CNES forestry, digital terrain models,
VEGETATION
environmental monitoring
The SPOT Programme DORIS-NG (SPOT), HRG, Land surface, agriculture and
SPOT-5 CNES
HRS, VEGETATION forestry, digital terrain models,
Course EO Satellite Missions Table
Mission Agency Programme Key Instruments Applications Further Information
environmental monitoring
NASAs Earth Observing Biological and physical
System processes, surface Terra
MODIS, MOPITT, MISR,
Terra NASA/METI/CSA temperatures of land and
ASTER, CERES
ocean, measurements of CO in
the troposphere
NASAs Earth Observing Topex/Poseidon
Topex/Posei DORIS, LRA, POSEIDON-1 Physical oceanography,
NASA/CNES System
don (SSALT-1), TMR, TOPEX geodesy/gravity
