Microwave Instruments

ASAR (ENVISAT)

The Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) onboard the ENVISAT satellite was a global mapping SAR mission of ESA.

Operational: 2002-03-01 to 2012-04-08

Acquisition Modes:

Image Mode (IM),
Alternating Polarization (AP),
Global Monitoring (GM),
Wide Swath (WS),
Wave (WV)

Frequency Bands: C-band, VV, HH, VV/HH, HV/HH, or VH/VV

Ground Resolution: 30m/150m/1km

Product Types: Single Look Complex (SLC), Precision, Medium-resolution

ASA_AP__BP – Alternating Polarization Browse Product
ASA_APG_1P – Alternating Polarization Ellipsoid Geocoded Image
ASA_APM_1P – Alternating Polarization Medium Resolution Image product
ASA_APP_1P – Alternating Polarization Mode Precision Image
ASA_APS_1P – Alternating Polarization Mode Single Look Complex
ASA_GM1_1P – Global Monitoring Mode Image
ASA_GM__BP – Global Monitoring Mode Browse Product
ASA_IM__BP – Image Mode Browse Product
ASA_IMM_1P – Image Mode Medium Resolution Image
ASA_IMP_1P – Image Mode Precision Image
ASA_IMS_1P – Image Mode Single Look Complex
ASA_WS__BP – Wide Swath Mode Browse Image
ASA_WSM_1P – Wide Swath Medium Resolution Image
ASA_WSS_1P – Wide Swath Single Look Complex
ASA_WVI_1P – Wave Mode SLC Imagette and Imagette Cross Spectra
ASA_WVS_1P – Wave Mode Imagette Cross Spectra
ASA_WVW_2P – Wave Mode Wave Spectra
ASA_XCA_AX – External Calibration

Data Format: ENVISAT N1
Polarizations: All modes are single pol except AP mode which offers non-coherent dual pol.

Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the *.N1 file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.

Further Information:

ASAR ProductHandbook.2_2

ENVISAT mission (eoPortal)

Capella

Capella Space is an American space company that provides on-demand Earth observation imagery through a constellation of small satellites.

Operational: 2018-12-03 to present

Frequency Band: X-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap (SM), Sliding Spotlight (SS), and Spotlight (SP)

Product Types: Single Look Complex (SLC), Geocoded Terrain Corrected (GEO)

Polarizations: Single-Pol HH

Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the json file.

Special Considerations: Products can be ordered in GeoTiff formats.

For InSAR processing, SLC products should be ordered.

Further Information:

https://www.capellaspace.com/products/

https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/capella-x-sar#eop-quick-facts-section

Cosmo-Skymed

Cosmo-Skymed is a dual use constellation of 4 SAR satellites developed by ASI.

Operational: 2007-06-08 to present

Frequency Band: X-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight

Product Types:

SCS Single Look Complex slant range
DGM Multi-look ground range
GEC Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected
GTC Geocoded and Terrain Corrected using a DEM

Polarizations: Single Pol, non-coherent Dual Pol in Ping Pong Stripmap mode

Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the *.h5 file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.

Special Considerations: Currently the SCS ScanSAR Huge Region is not supported

Further Information:

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/cosmo-skymed

ERS-1

ESA’s first sun-synchronous polar-orbiting SAR mission acquired more than 1.5 million individual scenes.

ERS-1’s greatest contribution was in the field of SAR interferometry, where for the first time, precise topographic information could be routinely produced from space data.
Operational: 1991-07-17 to 2000-03-13
Frequency Band: C-band
Acquisition Modes: Stripmap
Product Types:

GEC Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected
PRI Precision Image
SLC Single Look Complex

Polarizations: All modes are Single Pol (VV).
Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the Volume file for CEOS format products or the *.E1 file
for ENVISAT format products. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.
Further Information:
https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-operational-eo-missions/ers/
https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/e/ers-1

ERS-2

The ERS-1 and ERS-2 tandem operations demonstrated SAR interferometry for various applications and paved the way for the definition of new dedicated SAR interferometry missions.

Operational: to 2011-09-05
Frequency Band: C-band
Acquisition Modes: Stripmap
Product Types:

GEC Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected
PRI Precision Image
SLC Single Look Complex

Polarizations: All modes are Single Pol (VV).
Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the Volume file for CEOS format products or the *.E2 file
for ENVISAT format products. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.
Further Information:
https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-operational-eo-missions/ers/
https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/e/ers-2

Iceye

Iceye is a commercial constellation of smallsat (100kg) SAR satellites.

The constellation will have 18 satellites providing revisits of 1 hour.Operational: 2018-01-12 to present

Frequency Band: X-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight

Product Types:

SLC Single Look Complex
GRD Ground Range Detected
Ortho terrain corrected
PRES terrain flattened

Polarizations: All modes are Single Pol (VV).

Further Information:

https://www.iceye.com/

JERS

Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1 (JERS-1) was a satellite launched in 1992 by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

It carried a L-band SAR and a nadir point optical and side looking optical sensors.Operational: 1992-02-11 to 1998-10-01

Frequency Band: L-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap

Product Types:

GEC Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected
PRI Precision Image
SLC Single Look Complex

Polarizations: All modes are Single Pol (HH).

Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the Volume file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.

Further Information:

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/j/jers-1

Kompsat-5

KOMPSAT-5 (Korean Multi-Purpose Satellite) is a commercial SAR mission operated by KARI and distributed by SIIS.

Kompsat-5 will be followed by a second SAR satellite Kompsat-6 in 2020.Operational: 2013-08-22 to present

Frequency Band: X-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight

Product Types: SCS, GEC, WEC, GTC, WTC

Polarizations: All modes are Single Pol (HH, HV, VV, VH).

Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the *_aux.xml file.

Further Information:

http://www.si-imaging.com/products

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/k/kompsat-5

NovaSAR-S

NovaSAR-S 1 is a mission developed by SSTL to demonstrate a small Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mission designed for low-cost programmes and optimized for shared launch opportunities.

Operational: 2018-09-16 to present

Frequency Band: S-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR, ScanSAR Wide, Maritime Surveillance

Product Types:

SLC Single Look Complex
GRD Ground Range Detected

Polarizations: Single Pol (HH,VV), Dual Pol (any two of HH, VV, HV or VH) or tripolar (any 3 from HH, VV, HV or VH)

Further Information:

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/n/novasar-1

PALSAR (ALOS-1)

The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), nicknamed “Daichi”, was a Japanese Earth-observation satellite, developed by JAXA.

ALOS included the PRISM, AVNIR-2, and PALSAR sensors. PALSAR was the SAR sensor.
Operational: 2006-01-24 to 2011-05-12

Frequency Band: L-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR

Product Types: L1.1 (SLC), L1.5 (GRD)

Polarizations: Single Pol (HH), Dual Pol (HH+HV)andFull Pol (HH+HV+VV+VH)

Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the Volume file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.

Special Considerations: SLC data provided by JAXA are generated with Non-Zero-Doppler. The ALOS Deskewing operator should be applied prior to coregistration or terrain correction.

SLCs provided by ESA are in Zero-Doppler annotation and do not require deskewing.

Further Information:

https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/about/palsar.htm

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/a/alos

PALSAR (ALOS-2)

Advanced Land Observing Satellite 2 (ALOS 2) is a Japanese Earth-observation satellite, developed by JAXA.

Operational: 2014-05-14 to present

Frequency Band: L-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight

Product Types: L1.1 (SLC), L1.5 (GRD), L2.1 (terrain corrected), L3.1 (Image quality-corrected)

Polarizations: Single Pol (HH), Dual Pol andFull Pol (HH+HV+VV+VH)

Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the Volume file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.

Special Considerations: Products can be ordered in CEOS and GeoTiff formats.

For InSAR processing, SLC products in CEOS format should be ordered.

Further Information:

https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/index.htm

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/a/alos-2

PAZ

PAZ is a Spanish dual use Earth observation and reconnaissance satellite developed by Hisdesat.

The Paz satellite is operated in a constellation with the German TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X on the same orbit.

Operational: 2018-02-22 to present

Frequency Band: X-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight

Product Types:

MGD Multi Look Ground Range, Detected representation
GEC Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected, Detected representation
EEC Enhanced Ellipsoid Corrected, Detected representation
SSC Single Look Slant Range Complex representation

Further Information:

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/p/paz

RADARSAT-1

Radarsat-1 was Canada’s first Earth Observation mission. The mission operated for 17 years.

Operational: 1995-11-04 to 2013-03-29

Frequency Band: C-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR

Product Types:

SLC Single Look Complex
SGF Path Image mulitlooked ground range
SGX Path Image Plus mulitlooked ground range
SSG Map Image mulitlooked ground range projected
SCW ScanSAR Wide
SCNScanSAR Narrow

Polarizations: All modes are Single Pol (HH)

Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the Volume file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.

Further Information:

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/radarsat-1

RADARSAT-2

Radarsat-2 is a commercial SAR mission from MDA and CSA.

Operational: 2007-12-14 to present

Frequency Band: C-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight

Product Types:

SLC Single Look Complex
SGF Path Image mulitlooked ground range
SGX Path Image Plus mulitlooked ground range
SSG Map Image mulitlooked ground range projected
SCW ScanSAR Wide
SCN ScanSAR Narrow

Polarizations:

Single Pol (HH, HV, VV, VH),
Dual Pol (HH+HV, VV+VH, HH+VV)
Full Pol (HH+HV+VV+VH)

Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the product.xml file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.

Special Considerations: NITF format is not supported. GDAL translate can be used to convert.

Further Information:

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat2/

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/radarsat-2

RADARSAT Constellation Mission

Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) is a SAR constellation of 3 satellites by the CSA.

Data is acquired based on the observation scenarios of the government of Canada and cannot be tasked by the public. Archive data will be available free and open.

Operational: 2019-06-12 to present

Frequency Band: C-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight, Ship Detection

Product Types:

SLC Single Look Complex
GRC Ground Range Complex
GCC Ground Range Geocoded
GRD Ground Range Detected
GCD Ground Range Geocoded Detected

Polarizations: Single Pol (HH), Dual Pol and Full Pol (HH+HV+VV+VH), Compact Pol (RH+RV)

Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the product.xml file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.

Further Information:

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/rcm

RISAT-1

RISAT-1 (Radar Imaging Satellite 1) was the first satellite imaging mission independently developed by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation).

The mission aimed to utilise all-weather, day-and-night SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) for applications in agriculture, geology, flood monitoring, and more.
Operational: 2012-04-26 to 2017-07-26

Frequency Band: C-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight

Product Types:

FRS-1 Fine Resolution Stripmap
FRS-2 Fine Resolution Alternate Polarization Stripmap
MRS Medium Resolution ScanSAR
CRS Course Resolution ScanSAR
HRS High Resolution Spotlight

Polarizations: SinglePol, Dual Pol and Full Pol (HH+HV+VV+VH), Compact Pol (RH+RV, LH+LV)

Further Information:

https://www.isro.gov.in/Spacecraft/risat-1

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/risat-1

SAOCOM

SAOCOM is an Earth observation satellite constellation of Argentina’s space agency CONAE.

Operational: 2018-10-08 to present

Frequency Band: L-band and X-band

Acquisition Modes: SM (Stripmap), TN (Topsar Narrow) and TW (Topsar Wide)

Product Types:

L1A-SLC
L1B-DI
L1C-GEC
L1D-GTC

Polarizations:

Two single polarization modes (HH, VV)
Two dual polarization modes (HH/HV, VV/VH)
One full polarization mode (HH/HV/VH/VV)
One (technological1) compact polarization mode (CP)

Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the xemt file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is not supported.

Further Information:

https://saocom.veng.com.ar/en/

https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/saocom

SeaSat

SeaSat was the first civilian SAR satellite designed for monitoring of the oceans.

Operational: June 26, 1978 to October 10, 1978

Frequency Band: L-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap

Product Types: GRD Ground Range Detected

Polarizations: All modes are single pol HH.

Further Information:

https://www-prod.asf.alaska.edu/seasat/

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/s/seasat

SENTINEL-1

Sentinel-1 is a constellation of two imaging radar satellites operated by ESA.

Sentinel-1B experienced an anomaly which rendered it unable to deliver radar data in December 2021, and the launch of Sentinel-1C is planned for 2023.
Operational: S1A 2014-04-03 to present, S1B 2016-04-25 to present

Frequency Band: C-band

Acquisition Modes: Interferometric Wideswath (IW), Extra Wideswath (EW), Stripmap (SM) and Wave (WV)

Product Types: Single Look Complex (SLC), Ground Range Detected (GRD), Ocean (OCN)

Level 1 SLC: L1 Single Look Complex (SLC) products consists of focused SAR data geo-referenced using orbit and attitude data from the satellite and provided in zero-Doppler slant-range geometry. The products include the full TX signal bandwidth and uses complex samples preserving the phase information. Stripmap SLCs contain one image per swath and polarization band. SM contains 1 image per polarization band. IW, having 3 swaths, has 3 images in single pol and 6 images for dual pol. EW, having 5 swaths, has 5 image for single pol and 10 image for dual pol. Each sub-swath consists of a series of bursts. Each burst has been processed as a separate SLC image.

Level 1 GRD: L1 Ground Range Detected (GRD) products consist of focused SAR data that has been projected to ground range using an Earth ellipsoid model, detected and multilooked. Phase information is lost. GRD products can be in one of three resolutions Full Resolution (FR), High Resolution (HR), or Medium Resolution (MR). L1 GRD products come in MR and HR for IW and EW modes, MR for WV mode and MR, HR and FR or SM mode.

Level 2 OCN: The L2 Ocean products may include Ocean WInd field (OWI), Ocean SWell spectra (OSW) and surface Radial VeLocity (RVL) information derived from the SAR data. The OWI is a ground range gridded estimate of the surface wind speed and direction at 10m above the surface derived from the L1 GRD images of SM, IW or EW modes. The OSW is a two-dimensional ocean surface swell spectra and also includes an estimate of the wind speed and direction per swell spectrum. The OSW is generated from SM and WV modes only. For SM, there are multiple spectras derived from the L1 SLC image. For WV, there is one spectra per vignette. The RVL is a ground range gridded difference between the measured L2 Doppler grid and the L1 calculated geometrical Doppler.

Polarizations:Dual Pol VV+VH or HH+HV

Primary metadata file: manifest.safe

Opening products: Products can be opened by selecting the manifest.safe file. Opening zipped products (*.zip) directly is also supported.

Further Information:

https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/user-guides/sentinel-1-sar

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/copernicus-sentinel-1

TerraSAR-X

TerraSAR-X (TSX) is an Earth observation satellite mission. It provides high-resolution X-band data for use in climatology, environmental and disaster monitoring, hydrology, geology, oceanography and cartography.

Operational: 2007-06-15 to present

Frequency Band: X-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight

Product Types:

MGD Multi Look Ground Range, Detected representation
GEC Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected, Detected representation
EEC Enhanced Ellipsoid Corrected, Detected representation
SSC Single Look Slant Range Complex representation

Further Information:

https://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10377

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/t/terrasar-x

TanDEM-X

TanDEM-X is an interferometric SAR satellite mission, funded in a public/private collaboration between the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and Airbus Defence and Space (formerly EADS Astrium GmbH).

The satellite launched in June, 2010 and constructs three-dimensional images of Earth’s surface.
Operational: 2010-06-21 to present

Frequency Band: X-band

Acquisition Modes: Stripmap, ScanSAR, Spotlight

Product Types:

MGD Multi Look Ground Range, Detected representation
GEC Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected, Detected representation
EEC Enhanced Ellipsoid Corrected, Detected representation
SSC Single Look Slant Range Complex representation

Further Information:

https://www.dlr.de/hr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-2317/

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/t/tandem-x

UAVSAR

UAVSAR is an airborne sensor from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Operational:

Frequency Band: L-band

Further Information:

https://uavsar.jpl.nasa.gov/

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/airborne-sensors/uavsar

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Optical Instruments

AATSR (ENVISAT)

Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer on ENVISAT.

Operational: Mar. 2002 – Apr. 2012
Frequency Bands: VIS (0.40 – 0.75 um), NIR (0.75 – 1.30 um), SWIR (1.3 – 3.0 um), MWIR (3.0 – 6.0 um), TIR (6.0 – 15.0 um)

Ground Resolution: 1km

Product Types:

ATS_AR__2P – Averaged geophysical product
ATS_BRW_AX – Browse LUT Data file
ATS_CH1_AX – Level-1B characterisation data
ATS_CL1_AX – Cloud LUT data
ATS_GC1_AX – General Calibration data
ATS_INS_AX – Instrument characterization file
ATS_LST_AX – LST retrieval coefficients data
ATS_MET_2P – AATSR Spatially Averaged Sea Surface Temperature for Meteo Users
ATS_NL__0P – AATSR Level 0 product
ATS_NR__2P – AATSR geophysical product (full resolution)
ATS_PC1_AX – Level-1B Processing configuration data
ATS_PC2_AX – Level-2 Processing Configuration data
ATS_SST_AX – SST Retrieval Coefficients data
ATS_TOA_1P – AATSR Gridded brightness temperature and reflectance

Data Format: ENVISAT N1

AQUARIUS (SAC-D)

Vegetation instrument

Operational: Jun. 2011 – Jun. 2015

Frequency Bands: Integrated 1.413 GHZ polarimetric radiometer, 1.26 GHz radar

Ground Resolution: 76 x 94 km

Product Types:

Data Format: HDF 5

ATSR (ERS1)

Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR)

Operational: Jul. 1991 – Mar. 2000

Frequency Bands: 1.6, 3.7, 11 and 12 µm

Ground Resolution: 1km

Product Types:

AT1_TOA_1P – Gridded brightness temperature and reflectance
AT1_NR__2P – Geophysical product (full resolution)

Data Format: ENVISAT N1

ER1_AT_1_RBT – TOA Radiance L1
GBT – Gridded brightness temperature
GSST – Gridded Sea Surface Temperature

Data Format: SADIST, SAFE

ATSR (ERS2)

Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR)

Operational: Apr. 1995 – Sep. 2011

Frequency Bands: 1.6, 3.7, 11 and 12 µm

Ground Resolution: 1km

Product Types:

AT1_TOA_1P – Gridded brightness temperature and reflectance
AT1_NR__2P – Geophysical product (full resolution)

Data Format: ENVISAT N1

ER1_AT_1_RBT – TOA Radiance L1
GBT – Gridded brightness temperature
GSST – Gridded Sea Surface Temperature

Data Format: SADIST, SAFE

AVHRR/3 (NOAA 15-19, METOP A-C)

Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer

Operational: May. 1998 – present

Frequency Bands: 0.58-0.68um, 0725-1.0um, 1.58-1.64um, 3.55-3.93um, 10.3-11.3um, 11.5-12.5um

Ground Resolution: 1.1km/LAC

Product Types:

L1B – TOA radiance

Data Format: NOAA CLASS, METOP

AVNIR2 (ALOS)

Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2.

Operational: Apr. 2006 – Apr. 2011

Frequency Bands: 0.42-0.5 um, 0.52-0.6 um, 0.61-0.69 um, 0.76-0.89 um

Ground Resolution: 10m

Product Types:

L1A – raw data extracted from the Level 0 data, expanded and generated lines
L1B1 – radiometric correction to Level 1A data, and added the absolute calibration coefficient
L1B2 – geometric correction to Level 1B1 data

Data Format: CEOS BSQ, GeoTIFF

DEIMOS-1

High-resolution land observation and disaster monitoring satellite.

Operational:2009 – 2019

Frequency Bands: 3 spectral bands: Green (0.52 – 0.60 um), Red (0.63 – 0.69 um), NIR (0.77 – 0.90 um)

Ground Resolution: 22m

Product Types:

Level 1R – Band-registered product derived from raw satellite data(L0R).
Level 2T – Orthorectified product derived from L1R product.

Data Format: DIMAP GeoTIFF

EnMAP (EnMAP)

Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program

Operational: Apr. 2022 – present

Frequency Bands: hyperspectral 420-1000nm, 900-2450nm

Ground Resolution: 30m

Product Types:

L1B – systematic and radiometric correction
L1C – geometric correction
L2A – atmospheric correction

Data Format: GeoTIFF

EPIC (DSCOVR)

Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera

Operational: Feb. 2015 – present

Frequency Bands: 317, 325, 340, 388, 443, 552, 680, 688, 764 and 779 nm

Ground Resolution: 8km/12km

Product Types:

Data Format: HDF EOS

ETM+ (Landsat 1-8)

Enhanced Thematic Mapper

Operational: Apr. 1999 – Apr. 2022

Frequency Bands: 0.45-0.515um, 0.525-0.605um, 0.63-0.69um, 0.775-0.90um, 1.55-1.75um, 2.08-2.35um, 10.41-12.5um, 0.52-0.9um

Ground Resolution: 15m/30m/60m

Product Types: L1

Data Format: GeoTIFF

GOCI (COMS)

Geostationary Ocean Color Imager

Operational: Jun. 2010 – Apr. 2021

Frequency Bands: 412, 443, 490, 555, 660, 680, 745, 865 nm

Ground Resolution: 500m

Product Types:

Data Format: HDF 5

Hawkeye (SeaHawk)

The Hawkeye instrument, flown onboard the SeaHawk CubeSat, was optimized to provide high quality, high resolution imagery (120 meter) of the open ocean, coastal zones, lakes, estuaries and land features.

Operational: Mar. 2019 – Oct. 2023

Frequency Bands: 412, 447, 488, 510, 556, 670, 752, 867 nm

Ground Resolution: 129m

Product Types:

Data Format: HDF 5
Further Information:
<SeaHawk/HawkEye

HICO (ISS)

Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean is an imaging spectrometer based on the PHILLS airborne imaging spectrometers operated onboard the ISS.

(HICO mission)

Operational: Sep. 2009 – Sep. 2014

Frequency Bands: 380 to 960 nm, 5.7 nm bandwidth

Ground Resolution: 90m

Product Types: L1b

Data Format: ENVI, HDF 5

IKONOS

IKONOS is the world’s first high-resolution commercially available satellite with imagery exceeding 1-meter (m) resolution.

Operational: September 1999 – December 2014

Frequency Bands: one panchromatic band (0.526 – 0.929 um) and 4 multispectral bands: Blue (0.445 – 0.516 um), Green (0.506 – 0.595 um), Red (0.632 – 0.698 um), NIR (0.757 – 0.853 um)

Ground Resolution: 1.0m – PAN & 4.0m – MS

Product Types:

Georectified products

Data Format: GeoTiff

Kompsat-2

Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite-2

Operational: July 2006 to present

Frequency Bands: one panchromatic band (0.5 – 0.9 um) and 4 multispectral bands: Blue (0.450 – 0.520 um), Green (0.520 – 0.600 um), Red (0.630- 0.690 um), NIR (0.760- 0.900 um)

Ground Resolution: 1.0m – PAN & 4.0m – MS

Product Types:

Level 1R: Level 1R data is the image data cut by catalogue (15000 column X15500 line), optionally MTF corrected.
Level 1G: Level 1G data is geometrically corrected from Level 1R image data using KOMPSAT-2 ancillary data only.

Data Format: GeoTiff

LASRC (Landsat 1-8)

Landsat Surface Reflectance Code

Operational: 2013 – present

Frequency Bands: depending on input (OLI, TIRS)

Ground Resolution: depending on input (OLI, TIRS)

Product Types: L2

Data Format: GeoTIFF

LEDAPS (Landsat 1-8)

Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System, surface reflectance

Operational: 1982 – 2022

Frequency Bands: depending on input (MSS, TM, ETM+)

Ground Resolution: depending on input (MSS, TM, ETM+)

Product Types: L2

Data Format: GeoTIFF

MERIS (ENVISAT)

Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on ENVISAT

Operational: Mar. 2002 – Apr. 2012

Frequency Bands: 390 nm to 1040 nm

Ground Resolution: 300m/1km

Product Types:

MER_FR__1P – MERIS Full Resolution Geolocated and Calibrated TOA Radiance
MER_FR__2P – MERIS Full Resolution Geophysical Product
MER_FRG_1P – MERIS Full Resolution Geo/Ortho-corrected TOA Radiance
MER_FSG_1P – MERIS Full Resolution Full Swath Geo/Ortho-corrected TOA Radiance
MER_FSG_2P – MERIS Full Resolution Full Swath Geo/Ortho-corrected TOA Reflectance
MER_LRC_2P – MERIS Extracted Cloud Thickness and Water Vapour for Meteo Users
MER_RAC_AX – MERIS Radiometric Calibration
MER_RR__1P – MERIS Reduced Resolution Geolocated and Calibrated TOA Radiance
MER_RR__2P – MERIS Reduced Resolution Geophysical Product
MER_RRC_2P – MERIS Extracted Cloud Thickness and Water Vapour
MER_RRG_1P – MERIS Reduced Resolution Geo/Ortho-corrected TOA Radiance
MER_RRG_2P – MERIS Reduced Resolution Geo/Ortho-corrected TOA Reflectance
MER_RRV_2P – MERIS Extracted Vegetation Indices

Data Format: ENVISAT N1, SAFE

L3_ENV_MER – MERIS L3 binned data aggregated on an equal area sinusoidal projection.

Data Format: NetCDF

MODIS (AQUA/TERRA)

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer.

Operational: 1999 – present

Frequency Bands: 405-2155nm, 3.66-14.28um

Ground Resolution: 250m/500m/1km

Product Types:

MxD021KM – Calibrated Radiances 5-Min L1B Swath 1 km
MxD02HKM – Calibrated Radiances 5-Min L1B Swath 500 m
MxD02QKM – Calibrated Radiances 5-Min L1B Swath 250 m
MxDOCL2 – Ocean Color Radiance Products 5-Min L2 Swath 1 km Day
MxDOCL2A – Ocean Color Derived Products Group 1 5-Min L2 Swath 1 km Day
MxDOCL2B – Ocean Color Derived Products Group 2 5-Min L2 Swath 1 km Day
MxDOCQC – Ocean Color Quality Control Product
MxD28L2 – Sea Surface Temperature Products 5-Min L2 Swath 1 km
MxD13A2 – Vegetation Indices 16-Day L3 Global 1km
MxD15A2 – Leaf Area Index – Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation 8-Day L4 Global 1km
MxD09GA – Surface Reflectance Daily L2G Global 1km and 500m

Data Format: NetCDF, HDF EOS

MSI (Sentinel-2)

Multispectral Instrument

Operational:

Sentinel 2A: June 2015 – present

Sentinel 2B: March 2017 – present

Frequency Bands: 3 bands: 4 visible bands, 6 Near-Infrared bands, and 3 Short-Wave Infrared bands; 442.3nm – 2202.4 nm

Ground Resolution: 10 m, 20 m, and 60 m depending on the wavelength

Product Types:

MSI L1B
MSI L1C
MSI L2A
MSI L2H
MSI L3

Data Format: SAFE

MSS (Landsat 1-8)

Multispectral Scanner

Operational: Jul. 1972 – Jan. 2013

Frequency Bands: 0.5-0.6um, 0.6-0.7um, 0.7-0.8um, 0.8-1.1um, 10.4-12.6um

Ground Resolution: 68x83m

Product Types: L1

Data Format: GeoTIFF

OCI (PACE)

Ocean Color Instrument

Operational: Apr. 2024 – present

Frequency Bands: 340-895nm hyperspectral, 940nm, 1038nm, 1250nm, 1251nm, 1378nm, 1615nm, 1616nm, 2130nm, 2260

Ground Resolution: 1km

Product Types:

L1B – TOA radiance
L1C – TOA radiance gridded
L2-PAR – Photosynthetically Available Radiation
L2-IOP – Inherent Optical Properties
L2-BGC – Biogeochemical Properties
L2-AOP – Apparent Optical Properties
L3-RRS – Global Mapped Remote-Sensing Reflectance
L3-POC – Global Mapped Particulate Organic Carbon
L3-PAR – Global Mapped Photosynthetically Available Radiation

Data Format: NetCDF

OCM (OCEANSAT-2)

Ocean Colour Monitor

Operational: Sep. 2009 – Jul. 2023

Frequency Bands: 404-424nm, 431-451nm, 476-496nm, 500-520nm, 546-566nm, 610-630nm, 725-755nm, 845-885nm

Ground Resolution: 360 x 250 m,

Product Types:

Data Format: HDF 5

OCTS (ADEOS)

Ocean Color and Temperature Sensor.

Operational: Aug. 1996 – Jun. 1997

Frequency Bands: 0.4-0.89um, 3.5-12.7um

Ground Resolution: 700m

Product Types:

Data Format: NetCDF

OLCI (Sentinel-3)

Ocean and Land Color Instrument

Operational: Feb. 2016 – present

Frequency Bands: 400-1020nm in 22 channels

Ground Resolution: 300m/1.2km

Product Types:

OL_1_ERR – OLCI Level-1 Reduced Resolution product
OL_1_EFR – OLCI Level-1 Full Resolution product
OL_2_LRR – OLCI Level-2 Land Reduced Resolution product
OL_2_LFR – OLCI Level-2 Land Full Resolution product
OL_2_WRR – OLCI Level-2 Water Reduced Resolution product
OL_2_WFR – OLCI Level-2 Water Full Resolution product

Data Format: SAFE

OLI (Landsat 1-8)

Operational Land Imager

Operational: Feb. 2013 – present

Frequency Bands: 442.96nm, 482.04nm, 561.41nm, 654.59nm, 864.67nm, 1608.86nm, 2200.73nm, 589.50nm, 1373.43nm

Ground Resolution: 15m/30m

Product Types: L1

Data Format: GeoTIFF

Pléiades

High Resolution Imager

Operational:

Pléiades 1A: December 2011 – present

Pléiades 1B: December 2012 – present

Frequency Bands: one panchromatic band (0.480 – 0.820 um) and 4 multispectral bands: Blue (0.450 – 0.530 um), Green (0.510 – 0.590 um), Red (0.620- 0.700 um), NIR (0.775- 0.915 um)

Ground Resolution: 0.5m – PAN & 2.0m – MS

Product Types:

HIR_P___1A – PLEIADES Panchromatic primary
HIR_P___3_ – PLEIADES Panchromatic ortho
HIR_MS__1A – PLEIADES Multispectral primary
HIR_MS__3_ – PLEIADES Multispectral ortho
HIR_PMS_1A – PLEIADES PanSharpened primary
HIR_PMS_2_ – PLEIADES PanSharpened projected
HIR_PMS_3_ – PLEIADES PanSharpened ortho
HIR_P_S_1A – PLEIADES Bundle primary
HIR_P_S_2_ – PLEIADES Bundle projected
HIR_P_S_3_ – PLEIADES Bundle ortho

Data Format: DIMAP V2 (GeoTIFF/J2K)

PRISM (ALOS)

Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (PRISM).

Operational: Apr. 2006 – Apr. 2011

Frequency Bands: 0.52-0.77 um

Ground Resolution: 2.5m

Product Types:

L1A – raw data extracted from the Level 0 data, expanded and generated lines
L1B1 – radiometric correction to Level 1A data, and added the absolute calibration coefficient
L1B2 – geometric correction to Level 1B1 data

Data Format: CEOS BSQ, GeoTIFF

RapidEye

RapidEye, formerly operated by Planet, is a retired constellation of five satellites, in operation from 2009 to 2020.

Operational: August 2008 to April 2020.

Frequency Bands: 5 bands; 440 – 850 nm

Ground Resolution: 6.5m

Product Types:

Level 1B
Level 3A
Level 3B

Data Format: NITF (L1), GeoTIFF (L3)

SeaWiFS (SeaStar)

Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor

Operational: Aug. 1997 – Jun. 2011

Frequency Bands: 402-422nm, 433-453nm, 480-500nm, 500-520nm, 545-565nm, 660-680nm, 745-785nm, 845-885nm

Ground Resolution: 1.1km

Product Types:

Data Format: HDF 5

SLSTR (Sentinel-3)

Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer

Operational: Feb. 2016 – present

Frequency Bands: 0.555 um to 10.85 um

Ground Resolution: 500m/1km

Product Types:

SL_1_RBT – L1B Radiance and Brightness Temperature
SL_2_LST – L2 Land Surface Temperature
SL_2_WST – L2 Water Single Temperature
SL_2_WCT – L2 Water Combined Temperature
SL_2_FRP – L2 Fire Radiative Power

Data Format: SAFE

SPOT 1-5

Satellite pour l’Observation de la Terre

Operational: Feb. 1986 – Mar. 2015

Frequency Bands: PAN 0.51-0.73µm, GREEN 0.50-0.59µm, RED 0.61-0.68µm, NIR 0.79-0.89µm

Ground Resolution: 10m PAN, 20m MSI

Product Types:

L1
L2 TOA

Data Format: BSQ, DIMAP GeoTIFF

SPOT 4-5 Take 5

Satellite pour l’Observation de la Terre

Operational: Feb. 2013 – Jun. 2013 (SPOT 4), Apr. 2015 – Sep.2015 (SPOT 5)

Frequency Bands: VIS 0.40-0.75µm, NIR 0.75-1.30µm, SWIR 1.3-3.0µm

Ground Resolution: 5m PAN, 20m MSI

Product Types:

HRG_XS__1A: L1A TOA not orthorectified
HRI_XS__1C, HRG_XS__1C: L1C TOA orthorectified
HRI_XS__2A, HRG_XS__2A: L2A BOA with cloud, water and snow masks

Data Format: DIMAP GeoTIFF

SPOT 6/7

Satellite pour l’Observation de la Terre

High-resolution optical pushbroom imager

Operational:

SPOT 6: September 2012 – present

SPOT 7: June 2014 – present

Frequency Bands: one panchromatic band (0.450- 0.750 um) and 4 multispectral bands: Blue (0.455 – 0.525 um), Green (0.530 – 0.590 um), Red (0.625 – 0.695um), NIR (0.760 – 0.890 um)

Ground Resolution: 1.5m – PAN & 6m – MS

Product Types:

NAO_P___1A – SPOT 6-7 Panchromatic primary
NAO_P___3_ – SPOT 6-7 Panchromatic ortho
NAO_MS__1A – SPOT 6-7 Multispectral primary
NAO_MS__3_ – SPOT 6-7 Multispectral ortho
NAO_PMS_1A – SPOT 6-7 PanSharpened primary
NAO_PMS_2_ – SPOT 6-7 PanSharpened projected
NAO_PMS_3_ – SPOT 6-7 PanSharpened ortho
NAO_P_S_1A – SPOT 6-7 Bundle primary
NAO_P_S_2_ – SPOT 6-7 Bundle projected
NAO_P_S_3_ – SPOT 6-7 Bundle ortho

Data Format: DIMAP V2 (GeoTIFF/J2K)

SPOT VEGETATION

SPOT-VGT monitored our planet’s land surface for 16 years (1998 – 2014) on a daily basis

and provided surface reflectance and NDVI, valuable for various applications, such as agriculture, land cover classification, agricultural monitoring and food security, and forest monitoring.
Operational: Mar. 1998 – May 2014

Frequency Bands: BLUE 0.46µm, RED 0.68µm, NIR 0.85µm, SWIR 1.65µm

Ground Resolution: 1.15-1.7km

Product Types:

L2A – TOA radiance
L3 S1 – daily composite
L3 S10 NDVI – 10-day composite
L3 S10 Radiometric

Data Format: HDF

SYN (Sentinel-3)

OLCI and SLSTR synergy product

Operational: Feb. 2016 – present

Frequency Bands: 0.555 um to 10.85 um

Ground Resolution: 300m/1km/4.5km

Product Types:

SY_1_SYN – L1C All OLCI and SLSTR L1b ungridded bands
SY_1_MISR – Misregistration file
SY_2_SYN – Land surface reflectance and aerosol geophysical parameters
SY_2_AOD – Level-2 global Aerosol
SY_2_V10 – 1 km VEGETATION-like product, 10 days
SY_2_VG1 – 1 km VEGETATION-like product, daily
SY_2_VGK – 1 km VEGETATION-like product TOA reflectances, radiometrically corrected
SY_2_VGP – 1 km VEGETATION-like product TOA reflectances

Data Format: SAFE

THEIA MUSCATE (Sentinel-2)

Muscate is the format of Sentinel-2 L2A generated by THEIA MUSCATE processing center at CNES.

The products contain 4 spectral bands at a 10m resolution (R1 group) and 6 spectral bands at a 20m resolution (R2 group)

Product Types:

Sentinel-2 L2A

Data Format: Muscate GeoTiff

TIRS (Landsat 1-8)

Thermal Infrared Sensor

Operational: Feb. 2013 – present

Frequency Bands: 10.6-11.19um, 11.5-12.52um

Ground Resolution: 100m

Product Types: L1

Data Format: GeoTIFF

TM (Landsat 1-8)

Thematic Mapper

Operational: Jul. 1982 – Jan. 2013

Frequency Bands: 0.45-0.52um, 0.52-0.60um, 0.63-0.69um, 0.76-0.90um, 1.55-1.75um, 2.08-2.35um, 10.41-12.5um

Ground Resolution: 15m panchromatic/30m/120m

Product Types: L1

Data Format: GeoTIFF, FAST

VGT (PROBA-V)

Vegetation instrument

Operational: May. 2013 – Jun.2020

Frequency Bands: 447-493nm, 610-690nm, 777-893nm, 1570-1650nm

Ground Resolution: 100m/200m

Product Types:

L2A – TOA reflectance
L3 – TOA and TOC reflectances composited

Data Format: HDF

VIIRS (NOAA 20, 21)

Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite

Operational: Oct. 2011 – present

Frequency Bands: 412 nm to 12 um in 22 bands

Ground Resolution: 375m/750m

Product Types:

Data Format: HDF 5

WorldView2

WorldView2 products

Operational: Octomber 2009 – present

Frequency Bands: one panchromatic band (0.450- 0.800um) and 8 multispectral bands: Coastal (0.400 – 0.450 um), Blue (0.450 – 0.510 um), Green (0.510 – 0.580 um), Yellow (0.585 – 0.625 um), Red (0.630 – 0.690 um), Red edge (0.705 – 0.745 um), NIR-1 (0.770- 0.895 um), NIR-2 (0.860- 0.1040 um)

Ground Resolution: up to 0.46m – PAN & up to 1.84m – MS

Product Types:

Level 2A

Data Format: GeoTiff

WorldView2 ESA archive products

Operational: Octomber 2009 – present

Frequency Bands: one panchromatic band and 8 multispectral bands: Coastal, Blue, Green, Yellow, Red, Red edge, NIR-1, NIR-2; Wavelengths: VIS (0.40 – 0.75 um), NIR (0.75 – 1.30 um), SWIR (1.3 – 3.0 um)

Ground Resolution: 0.4m – PAN & 1.6m – MS

Product Types:

WV1_PAN__2A – Band combination: Panchromatic (PAN), Processing level: Standard/View Ready Standard
WV1_PAN__OR – Band combination: Panchromatic (PAN), Processing level: View Ready Stereo
WV1_PAN__MP – Band combination: Panchromatic (PAN), Processing level: Map Scale Ortho
WV1_4B__2A – Band combination: 4-Band (4B), Processing level: Standard/View Ready Standard
WV1_4B__OR – Band combination: 4-Band (4B), Processing level: View Ready Stereo
WV1_4B__MP – Band combination: 4-Band (4B), Processing level: Map Scale Ortho
WV1_8B_2A – Band combination: 8-Band (8B), Processing level: Standard/View Ready Standard
WV1_8B_OR – Band combination: 8-Band (8B), Processing level: View Ready Stereo
WV1_8B_MP – Band combination: 8-Band (8B), Processing level: Map Scale Ortho

Data Format: EO-SIP

Other

Generic Formats:

ArcGIS binary grid files
Big GeoTIFF
SNAP DIMAP
CSV
ENVI hdr/img
PGX
ZNAP

Auxiliary Data: ENVISAT auxiliary data files

Operational: Mar. 2002 – Apr. 2012

Frequency Bands: n/a

Ground Resolution: n/a

Product Types:

AUX_DEM_AX – Digital Elevation Model
AUX_LSM_AX – Auxiliary Land/Sea Mask

Data Format: ENVISAT N1

Envisat DORIS Precise Orbit product

Operational: Mar. 2002 – Apr. 2012

Frequency Bands: n/a

Ground Resolution: n/a

Product Types:

DOR_POR_AX – DORIS Preliminary Orbit
DOR_VOR_AX – Doris Precise Orbit

Data Format: ENVISAT N1

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List of supported satellite products and formats

Microwave Instruments

ASAR (ENVISAT)

Capella

Cosmo-Skymed

ERS-1

ERS-2

Iceye

JERS

Kompsat-5

NovaSAR-S

PALSAR (ALOS-1)

PALSAR (ALOS-2)

PAZ

RADARSAT-1

RADARSAT-2

RADARSAT Constellation Mission

RISAT-1

SAOCOM

SeaSat

SENTINEL-1

TerraSAR-X

TanDEM-X

UAVSAR

Optical Instruments

AATSR (ENVISAT)

AQUARIUS (SAC-D)

ATSR (ERS1)

ATSR (ERS2)

AVHRR/3 (NOAA 15-19, METOP A-C)

AVNIR2 (ALOS)

DEIMOS-1

EnMAP (EnMAP)

EPIC (DSCOVR)

ETM+ (Landsat 1-8)

GOCI (COMS)

Hawkeye (SeaHawk)

HICO (ISS)

IKONOS

Kompsat-2

LASRC (Landsat 1-8)

LEDAPS (Landsat 1-8)

MERIS (ENVISAT)

MODIS (AQUA/TERRA)

MSI (Sentinel-2)

MSS (Landsat 1-8)

OCI (PACE)

OCM (OCEANSAT-2)

OCTS (ADEOS)

OLCI (Sentinel-3)

OLI (Landsat 1-8)

Pléiades

PRISM (ALOS)

RapidEye

SeaWiFS (SeaStar)

SLSTR (Sentinel-3)

SPOT 1-5

SPOT 4-5 Take 5

SPOT 6/7

SPOT VEGETATION

SYN (Sentinel-3)

THEIA MUSCATE (Sentinel-2)

TIRS (Landsat 1-8)

TM (Landsat 1-8)

VGT (PROBA-V)

VIIRS (NOAA 20, 21)

WorldView2

Other