Rs satellites catelogue 2012

[REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES CATALOGUE] February 2, 2012
Department of the Space Sciences [5th
Semester, Session 2009-13]
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Table of Content
1. Abstract. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 02
2. Introduction To Satellites. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 03
a. Definition Of Satellite. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
b. Categories Of Satellite…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
c. List Of The Sensors. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. Description About Remote Sensing. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………27
a. Missions Of The Remote Sensing Satellites………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………………
4. Description About Dataset. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 32
a. Definition Of Dataset. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
b. Parameters Of Dataset. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
5. Satellite Catalogue Procedure………………………………………………………………………...……………….………………………………………………… 34
6. References. ……………………………………………………………...................................................................................................................................................... 37

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ABSTRACT:
This paper describes a comprehensive research work on available datasets on Remote Sensing Satellites since the time of its beginning. Some of the important criteria were
kept in mind while doing this assignment such as satellite names, altitudes, swath widths, resolutions, owner of the satellites, and agency or launch vehicles of the satellites
etc.
First portion describes the introduction to the satellites, second deals with the remote sensing satellites, third encounters with the description of the datasets while on fourth
portion whole of the satellite catalogue be there and last one, fifth portion, is on the references side.
The assignment was given by “Sir. Asim Dawood” under the Department of Space Sciences, University of the Punjab.
This paper work was done by 05th
semester, BS.(Hons.), session 2009-13 by the team effort of the following students:
1. Mr. Asif Butt (SS09-05)
2. Miss. Atiqa Ijaz Khan (SS09-03)
3. Miss. Rabbia Mehmod (SS09-14)
4. Miss. Rabia Zahoor (SS09-28)
5. Miss. Rafia Naheed (SS09-09)
6. Mr. Usama Maqsood (SS09-25)

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INTRODUCTION TO SATELLITES
Definition of Satellites:
“A satellite is something that goes around and around the earth or another planet”.
Some satellites are natural, like the moon, which is a natural satellite of the earth. Other satellites are made by
scientists and technologists to go around the earth.
Some satellites send and receive television signals. The signal is sent from a station on the earth's surface. The
satellite receives the signal and rebroadcasts it to other places on the earth. With the right number of satellites in
space, one television program can be seen all over the world.
Some satellites send and receive telephone, fax, and computer communications. Satellites make it possible to
communicate by telephone, fax, Internet, or computer with anyone in the world. Other satellites observe the world's weather, feeding weather information into giant
computer programs that help scientists know what the weather will be. The weather reporters on your TV news program get their information from those scientists.
Some satellites take very accurate pictures of the earth's surface, sending back images that tell scientists about changes that are going on around the world and about crops,
water, and other resources.

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Categories Of Satellites:
1. On the basis of Height:
Satellite Categories
on the Basis of Heigth
Low Earth
Orbit
Medium Earth
Orbit
High Earth
Orbit

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2. On basis of Missions:
Satellite categories on basis
of their usage
Meterological
Satellites
Defence
Satellites
Remote
Sensing
Satllites
Communication
Satellites

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List Of The Sensors:
The following is the list of few important sensors mostly used in Remote Sensing Satellites. They are 324 in numbers.
Name Description No of
Bands
Mission
ADCS/SARSAT Advanced Data Collection System/Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking NPOESS-3,4 & 6
A-DCS4 ARGOS - Data collection system GOES - P
AATSR Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer 7 EnviSat
ACE-FTS Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment - Fourier Transform Spectrometer SCISAT
ACS Atmospheric Correction Sensor ResourceSat 3
Active Phased Array SAR X band 1 TanDEM - X
AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder 7 Aqua
AEISS Advanced Earth Imaging Sensor System 4 KompSat 3
ALI Advanced Land Imager 9 EO-1
Aladin Atmospheric LAser Doppler INstrument ADM-Aeolus
ALISSA L'atmosphere par Lidar Sur Saliout 1 Priroda-MIR
ALMAZ-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 ALMAZ-1

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AlSat Standard DMC sensor 3 AlSat-1
ALT Dual Frequency Radar Altimeter 2 TOPEX/Poseidon
ALT (Seasat) Altimeter 1 SeaSat
ALtika High resolution Altimeter including bi-frequency radiometric function SARAL
AMI Active Microwave 1 ERS -1 & 2
AMR Advanced Microwave Radiometer Jason 2
AMSR Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 8 ADEOS-II
AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS 6 Aqua
AMSR2 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer GCOM-W
AMSU-A Advanced Microwave Sounding 15 NOAA-15,16,17,18
AMSU-B Advanced Microwave Sounding 5 NOAA-15, 16
APS Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor GLORY
ASAR Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 EnviSat
ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer 14 Terra
ATLID High spectral resolution LIDAR EarthCARE
ATSR-1 Along Track Scanning Radiometer 4 ESR 1

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ATSR-2 Along Track Scanning Radiometer 7 ESR 2
AVHRR/2 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 5 MetOp A, NOAA-10,11,12,14
AVHRR/3 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 6 NOAA-15,16,17,18
AVNIR Advanced visible near-infrared Radiometer 5 ADEOS
AVNIR-2 Adv. visible and near-infrared radiometer (type 2) 4 ALOS
AWFI Wide Field Imaging Camera 4 CBERS 3 & 4
AWiFS Advanced Wide Field Sensor A and B 4 RESOURCESAT 1 & 2
BBR Broadband Radiometer EarthCARE
BEIJING-1-MS Standard DMC sensor 3 BEIJING 1
BILSAT-MS 4 BILSAT
BILSAT-PAN 1 BILSAT
Camera Multispectral camera with black and white and color imaging Svea
CCD Multispectral Camera 5 CBERS 3 & 4
CCD Multispectral Camera 4 CBERS & CBERS 2
CCD-TDI Selectable 1 EROS C
CCD/TDI Selectable-Multispectral posibility EROS B

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CCSP Cloud Camera Sensor Package GLORY
CERES Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System 3 Aqua, NPOESS-
1,3,4,6,TRMM,Terra
Chinese Mapping
Telescope
1 BEIJING 1
CHRIS Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer 18 PROBA
COBAN 9 BILSAT
COSI Corea SAR Instrument 1 KompSat 5
CPR Cloud Profiling RADAR EarthCARE
CrIMSS Cross track Infrared and Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder 3 NPOESS -1,3,4,6
CZCS Coastal Zone Color Scanner 6 NIMBUS 7
DK-1 camera 1
DK-2 camera 1
DMC2 Standard DMC sensor 3 UK-DMC 2
DORIS Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite 2
DORIS Doris receiver

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DORIS
DPR Dual frequency Precipitation Radar GPM Core
E-OP1 Panachromatic and 4 band color imager NigeriaSat 2
E-OP2 Wide area coverage imager NigeriaSat 2
EOC Electro-Optical Camera 1 KOMPSAT 1
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
FRS Strip map mode RISAT
GERB Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget 2 MSG 1 & 2
GIS-MS Visible and NIR 4 GEOEYE 1
GIS-PAN Panachromatic 1 GEOEYE 1
GLAS Geoscience Laser Altimeter System 2 ICESat
GLI Global Imager 36 ADEOS II

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GMI Microwave Radar Instruement GPM Core
GOME Global Monitoring of Atmospheric Ozone 6
GOME - 2 Global Monitoring of Atmospheric Ozone 6 ERS 2, MetOp A
GOES Comms Communication packages on GOES GOES-P
GOES Imager Multi channel instrument to sense radiant and solar reflected energy 5 GOES-O
GOES Sounder 19 channel discrete-filter radiometer 19 GOES-O
GOMOS Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars 3 ENVISAT
GUVI Global Ultraviolet Imager TIMED
HCS High Sensitivity Camera 1 SAC-C
HEPD High Energy Particle Detector 7 KOMPSAT 1
HIRDLS High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder 21 AURA
HiRI High Resolution Optical Imager Pleiades HR 1
HIRS/2 High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder 20 NOAA-10,11,14
HIRS/3 High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder 20 NOAA-15,16,17
HIRS/4 High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder 20 NOAA-18, MetOp A
HIS Hyperspectral Instrument 200 EnMAP

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HPO High Performance Optical sensor ASNARO
HQSAR High Quality SAR TerraSAR - X
HRC High Resolution Camera 1 PROBA
HRG High Resolution Geometric 4 SPOT 5
HRS High Resolution Stereoscopic 1 SPOT 5
HRTC High Resolution Technological Camera 1 SAC-C
HRV High Resolution Visible 4 SPOT 1
HRVIR High Resolution Visible and Infra-red 4 SPOT 4
HSB Humidity Sounder for Brazil 4 Aqua
HSRS Hot Spot Recognition Sensor System 2 BIRD
Hyperion High resolution hyperspectral imager with 220 spectral bands 220 EO-1
HySI Hyper Spectral Camera with 64 fixed bands 64 IMS 1
IDEE Instrument for Detection of high Energy Electrons TARANIS
IKAR-DELTA 3 PRIRODA-MIR
IKAR-N 5 PRIRODA-MIR
IKAR-P 2 PRIRODA-MIR

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ILAS Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer 2 ADEOS
ILAS-II Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer-II 4 ADEOS-II
IMA Multispectral Imager operating in 5 bands 5 Agro (RapidEye 6)
Imager 5 GOES 8,9,10 & P, L
Imager-M 5 GOES M
IMG Interferometer Monitor for Greenhouse Gases 1 ADEOS
IMM Instrument for Magnetic Measurements TARANIS
IMS Ionosphere Measurement Sensor 1 KOMPSAT 1
IPEI Ionosphere Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument 4 FORMOSAT 1
IR-MSS Infrared Multispectral scanner 4 CBERS & CBERS 2
IRMSS Medium Resolution scanner 4 CBERS 3 & 4
ISTOK-1 Infrared Spectrometer 64 PRIRODA-MIR
ISUAL Imager of Sprites and Upper Atmospheric Lightning FORMOSAT 2
Imager(INSAT) The Imager is an improved design of VHRR/2 (Very High Resolution Radiometer) 6 INSAT 3D
JAMI Japanese Advanced meteorological Imager 5 MTSAR-1R
JMR Jason-1 Microwave Radiometer 3 Jason-1

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Kompsat-MSC B&W panachromatic, 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
LAR Laser Retoflector Array Jason-2 (OSTM)
Laser Reflector CryoSat-2
LBI SAR - L band SAOCOM-1A
LCT Laser Communication Terminal TanDEM-X
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-1 A & B
LISS 2 Linear Imagine Self Scanning System 4 IRS-1 A , B & P2
LISS 3 Linear Imagine Self Scanning System 4 IRS-1 C & D
LISS 3* Linear Imagine Self Scanning System 4 RESOURCESAT-1
LISS 4 Linear Imagine Self Scanning System 3 RESOURCESAT-1,2
LISS-III-WS Wide Swath sensor 4 RESOURCESAT-3

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LRA Dorris precise orbitography system with Laser Retroflector SARAL
LRIT Low-Rate Information Transmission GOES-P
MAC Pan 1 RazakSat (MACSAT)
MAC Multispectral 4 RazakSat (MACSAT)
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 & 1b
MEXIC Multi Experimental Interface Controller TARANIS
MHS Microwave Humidity Sounder 5 NOAA 18 & MetOp A
MIPAS Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding 5 ENVISAT
MIRAS Microwave Imaging Radiometer Apeture Synthesis SMOS
MIS Microwave Imager/Sounder NPOESS 1,4,3,6
MISR Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer 4 Terra

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MLS Microwave Limb Sounder 5 AURA
MMRS MultiSpectral Medium Resolution Scanner 5 SAC-C
MMSAR Multi Mode SAR TecSAR
MODI Moderate Radiation Visible and NIR Imager Feng Yun 3A
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (PFM on Terra, FM1 on Aqua) 36 Terra, Aqua
MOMS-2P Modular Optoelectronic Multispectral Scanner 4 PRORODA-MIR
MOPITT Measurement Of Pollution In The Troposphere 64 Terra
MOS Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer 18 IRS-P3
MOS-A Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer 4 PRORODA-MIR
MOS-B Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer 13 PRORODA-MIR
MRS, CRS Scan SAR mode RISAT
MS Camera Multispectral Camera for three bands 3 THEOS
MS Camera Derived from SPOT camera, has thermo-elastic stability 4 Kanopus-Vulkan
MS Camera Multispectral Camera Deimos 1
MSC Multispectral 12 VENUS
MSI Multi spectral instrument 13 Sentinel-2

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MSI Multispectral Imager 7 EarthCARE
MSMR Multifrequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer 4 IRS-P4
MSR Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 MOS- 1, 1b
MSS Multispectral Scanner 4 Alsat-2A, LandSat 4,5
MSS (LS 1-3) Multispectral Scanner Landsat 1,2,3 5 LandSat 1,2,3
MSU Microwave Sounding Unit 4 NOAA 10,11,12,14
MSU-E Microwave Sounding Unit 3 RESURS-O1-3
MSU-E1 3 RESURS-O1
MSU-E2 3 PRORODA-MIR
MSU-SK 5 PRORODA-MIR
MSU-SK (Resurs) 5 RESURS-O1-3
MSU-SK1 5 RESURS-O1
MSU-GS Multispectral Scanner - Geostationary 5 Electro L/GMOS 2
MTI Multi-spectral Thermal Imager 16 MTI
MUX 3 CBERS 3, 4
MVISR Multichannel Visible and IR Scan Radiometer 10 Feng Yung 1C & 1D

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MWR Microwave Radiometer 2 Sentinel 3
MWR Microwave Radiometer ENVISAT
MWRI Microwave Radiation Imager Feng Yung 3A
Mx Four band multispectral CCD camera 4 IMS 1
NigeriaSat-1 Standard DMC sensor 3 NigeriaSat-1
NSCAT NASA Scatterometer 1 ADEOS
OCI Ocean Color Imager 7 FORMOSAT-1
OCM Ocean Color Monitor 8 OceanSat-2, IRS-P4
OCTS Ocean Color and Temperature scanner 12 ADEOS
OLCI Ocean and Land Color Instrument Sentinel 3
OLI Operational Land Imager 9 LDCM LandSat 8
OLS Operational Linescan System 3 DMSP-16
OMI Ozone Monitoring Instrument 3 AURA
OMPS Ozone Mapping and Profile Suite NPOESS 1,3,4,6
OPS Optical Sensor 8 JERS-1
Orbview-3 5 Orbview-3

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OSA Optical Sensor Assembly 5 IKONOS
OSIRIS Optical Spectograph and Infrared Imaging System ORDIN
OSMI Ocean Scanning Multi-spectral Imager 6 KOMPSAT-1
OTD Optical Transient Detector 1 Orbview-1
OIS Optical Imaging System 3 RASAT
OZON-M 4 PRORODA-MIR
PALSAR L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 ALOS
PAMELA 4 Resurs DK
PAN 1 CBERS-4
PAN 1 CBERS-3, IRS-1C &1D
PAN Panachromatic Camera 1 CartoSAT-2B
PAN Camera Panachromatic Camera 1 IRS P7 (CartoSat2)
PAN Camera Panachromatic Camera 1 Kanopus-Vulkan
PAN Telescope 1 THEOS
PAN-A Panchromatic-Aft pointing 1 CartoSat-1
PAN-F Panchromatic-Forward pointing 1 CartoSat-1

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PANC Panchromatic camera 1 CartoSat-2a
POAM-II Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement 9 SPOT 3
POAM-III Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement 9 SPOT 4
POLDER Polarization and directionality of the Earth's reflectance 15 ADEOS, ADEOS-II, Parasol
Poseidon 2 altimeter 2 Jason-1
PR Preciptation Radar 2 TRMM
PRISM Three panchromatic sensors for Stereomapping 1 ALOS
PVI Performance Vegetation Instrument 4 PROBA 5
Quickbird 4 Quickbird
R-400 1 PRORODA-MIR
RA Radio Altimeter 2 ERS 1, ERS 2
RA-2 Radio Altimeter 3 ENVISAT
Radar Altimeter 1 GFO
Radar sensor SMAP
RADARSAT 2 Radar RADARSAT-2
Radiometer L –band SMAP

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RBV Return Beam Vidicon Camera 4 LandSat 1
RIS Reflector in space 1 ADEOS
REIS Records five spectral bands in Visible and NIR 5 RapidEye
ROCSAT-2 5 FORMOSAT-2
ROSA Radio Occultation sounder for Atmospheric studies OceanSat-2
RSI Remote Sensing Instrument 4 FORMOSAT-5
S-VISSR S-Visible and IR Spin Scan Radiometer 4 FengYun 2A & 2B
SABER Multi channel radiometer TIMED
SAC-D L-band radiometer /Scatterometer Aquarius
SAM II Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement 1 NIMBUS 7
SAMS Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder 9 NIMBUS 7
SAPHIR Microwave Sounding Instrument MEGHA-TROPIQUES
SAR (JERS-1) Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 JERS-1
SAR (RadarSat-1) Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 RADARSAT-1
SAR (Seasat) Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 SEASAT
SAR 2000 RADAR 1 COSMO-SkyMed

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SAR-L L band SAR MAPSAR
SASS Seasat-A Satellite Scatterometer 1 SEASAT
SBUV/2 Solar Backscatter Ultra violet instrument 12 NOAA-11,12,14-18
SBUV/TOMS Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet/Total Ozone Mapping-failed in 1993 6 NIMBUS-7
SCARAB Scanning Radiative Budget Instrument MEGHA-TROPIQUES
Scatterometer OceanSat-2
SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography 8 ENVISAT
SeaWiFS Sea viewing Wide Field Sensor 8 Orbview-2
Seawinds 1 ADEOS-II, QuickSCAT
SEE Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Experiment TIMED
SEM Space Environment Monitor GOES-P
SEM - Space E To measure solar radiation in the X-ray and EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) region 7 GOES-O
SEVIRI Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager 12 MSG-1 & MSG-2
SGLI Second Generation Global Imager 35 GCOM-C
SIM Spectral Irradiance Monitor 1 SORCE
SIR-C 1 SRTM

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SIRAL Interferometric Radar Altimeter CryoSat-2
SLSTR Sea and Land Surface Temparature Radiometer Sentinel-3
SMMR Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer 5 SeaSat, NIMBUS-7
SOLSTICE A & B SOlar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment 1 SORCE
Sounder 19
Sounder Sounder on GOES GOES-9,10, L,P,M
SRAL SAR Radar Altimeter Sentinel-3
SSJ/5 Preciptating Particle Spectrometer DMSP-16
SSMIS Special Sensor Micowave Imager/Sounder 4 DMSP-16
SSU Stratospheric Sounder Unit 3 NOAA-11,14
SSULI Ultraviolet Limb Imager DMSP-16
SSUSI Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager DMSP-16
STR Scanning Television Radiometer 3 Elektro-L
SLIM6 Surrey Linear Imager Multispectral 6 channels - but 3 spectral bands 3 NigeriaSat X
SXI Solar X-ray Imager GOES-P
SXI - Solar X-Ray To monitor the sun's X-rays GOES-O

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Imager
TANSO - CAI Thermal And NIR Sensor for carobon Obervation - Cloud & Aerosal Imager 4 GOSAT (IBUKI)
TANSO - FTS Thermal And NIR Sensor for carobon Obervation - Fourier Transform Spectrometer 4 GOSAT (IBUKI)
TANSO - FTS Greenhouse Gases Sensor GOSAT (IBUKI)
TDI Panchromatic 1 ALSAT-2A
TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer 12 AURA
THIR Temperature Humidity Infrared Radiometer 2 NIMBUS-7
TIDI Timed Doppler Interferemeter TIMED
TIM Total Irradiance Monitor 1 SORCE
TIR Total Irradiance Monitor GLORY
TK-350 1 COSMOS
TM Thematic Mapper 7 LandSat 4, 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

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TOR Package Tracking, Occupation and Ranging TanDEM-X
Travers SAR 2 PRORODA-MIR
TV Camera 1 PRORODA-MIR
UK-DMC Standard DMC sensor 3 UK-DMC
VEGETATION VEGETATION 2 on Spot 5 4 SPOT5
VHRR Very High Resolution Radiometer 2 INSAT 2A, 2B, 2E
VIIRS Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiameter Suite NPOESS-1,3,4,6
VIRR Visible and IR Radiometer 2 SeaSat
VIRR Visible and IR Radiometer 2 FengYun 3A
VIRS Visible and Infra red scanner 5 TRMM
VISSR Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer 3 Meteosat 5,6,7
VISSR (GMS) Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer 4 GSM-5
VTIR Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer 4 MOS1, MOS1b
WAOSS-B Wide-Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner 2 BIRD
Water Vapor
Radiometer
2 GFO

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WFI Wide field imager 2 CBERS, CBERS-2
WiFS Wide Field Sensor 3 IRS-1C, 1D, P3
WindSat 5 Coriolis
WorldView 1 Provides highly detailed imagery for precise map creation and in-depth image analysis 1 WorldView 1
WV110 Standard 4 colors + New 4 colors 8 WorldView 2
WV60 PAN 1 WorldView 2
WV 3 PAN WorldView 3 Panchromatic sensor 1 WorldView 3
WV 3 MSS WorldView 3 Multispectral sensor 8 WorldView 3
X-SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 STRM
XGRE X-ray and Gamma Relativistic Electron detector TARANIS
XPS XUV Photometer 1 SOECE
YaoGan-5 YaoGan-5

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Description About Remote Sensing Satellites
Remote Sensing is one of the major disciplines of the recent technological century. Without this no developed country can make a remarkable progress even now its also
the need of under developed countries.
Mostly the Remote Sensing satellites operate under low Earth to medium Earth altitude range, having different combinations of bands and resolutions. Also their swath
width varies from the range of kilometers to meters as the technology revives. Therefore, it is the basic aspect of the of the modern century that not only help the military
assessment but also going to be in best for the civilian purposes now a days and hopefully in the near future.

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A Remote Sensing Satellite

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Mission of the Remote Sensing Satellites:
Some of the remote sensing satellites launched by various countries are given below. They have been grouped into three categories according to their functions.
1. Group 1: Primarily Land Observers.
Satellite Name Launch Year
Landsat (1-6) 1973
Seasat 1978
HCMM 1978
SPOT (France) (1-3) 1986

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2. Group 2: Primarily Meteorological Observers.
Satellite Name Launch year
TIROS (1-9) 1960
Nimbus (1-7) 1964
ESSA (1-9) 1966
ATS(g) (1-3) 1966
DMSP series I 1966
the Russian Kosmos 1969
the Russian Meteor series 1969
ITOS series 1970

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3. Group 3: Major use in Oceanography
Remote Sensing Satellites Launching Year
DMSP series 2 1976
GMS series (Japan)9 1977
Meteosat(g) series (Europe) 1978
TIROS-N series 1978
Bhaskara (India) 1979
NOAA (6-14) 1982
Insat ( India) 1983
ERBS 1984

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Introduction to the Datasets
Definition of the Dataset:
“The term data set refers to a file that contains one or more records”.
Datasets consist of all of the information gathered during a survey which needs to be analyzed. Any named group of records is called a data set.
Data sets can be cataloged, which permits the data set to be referred to by name without specifying where it is stored. A record is a fixed number of bytes containing data.
The term field refers to a specific portion of a record used for a particular category of data. The records in a data set can be organized in various ways, depending on how
we plan to access the information.

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Parameters for Datasets:
Data is always arranged on the basis of some scientific background.
Whether dealing with images taken by the help of satellites or the specifications of them.
Citation Format
1. Author Name (Agency supporting the dataset)
2. Publication Date (Processing date)
3. Collection Name (Satellite or its sensor name)
4. Image Name (Specified by the dataset owner of site)
5. Publisher (Agency)
6. Publisher Location (Country)
7. Product Coverage Date (Acquisition date in metadata)

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Catalogue Procedure:
Remote Sensing Satellite Catalogue has been prepared on “Microsoft Access 2007” by the concept of DBMS (Database Management System).
Portions of the Database:
It is divided into three portions:
1. Satellite Catalogue Database.
2. Satellite Catalogue Form.
3. Satellite Catalogue Report.

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Database From
Repot

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Important Points:
1. The primary key is the “’.
2. Secondary key can also be utilized to facilitate the procedure.
3. One of the major benefits of using the Access is that the new entry is much more easy to tackle.
4. By the help of the Access we can easily sort out the data on the basis any arrangement we want like it can be sorted out in alphabetic order from A-Z or from Z-A, up to our
own choice.
5. We can easily query out for such a comprehensive datasets.
6. It can be displayed in some other formats like Form or Report.
7. Also more helpful in printing but one drawback is that size of the new column entry is limited.

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References:
1. http://www.astrium.eads.net
2. http://www.astrium-geo.com
3. http://www.century-of-flight.net
4. http://www.isro.org/
5. http://www.nkau.gov.ua
6. http://www.rammb.cira.colostate.edu
7. http://www.reentrynews.aero.org
8. http://www.satimagingcorp.com
9. http://www. space.skyrocket.de
10. http://www.topsat.org/

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