Instruments listed here are from Sentinel Satellites, Landsat Satellites, Airbus, Maxar and Jaxa and which are currently in operation. To get a complete catalogue of instruments from a range of satellites, refer to The CEOS Database.
| Instrument | Mission | Agency | Type | Application | Data Access | Data Access Portal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-SAR (C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar) | Sentinel-1 | ESA | Imaging microwave radars | Marine core services, land monitoring and emergency services. Monitoring sea ice zones and arctic environment. Surveillance of marine environment, monitoring land surface motion risks, mapping of land surfaces (forest, water and soil, agriculture), mapping in support of humanitarian aid in crisis situations. | Open | Copernicus Open Access Hub |
| MSI (Multispectral Instrument) | Sentinel-2 | ESA | High resolution optical imagers | Optical high spatial resolution imagery over land and coastal areas. | Open | Copernicus Open Access Hub |
| OCLI (Ocean and land cover instrument) | Sentinel-3 | ESA | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (VIS/IR) and ocean colour instruments | Marine and Land Services. | Open | Copernicus Open Access Hub |
| SLSTR (Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer) | Sentinel-3 | ESA | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (VIS/IR) | Marine and Land Services. | Open | Copernicus Open Access Hub |
| SRAL (SAR Radar Altimeter) | Sentinel-3 | ESA | Radar altimeter | Marine and Land Services. | Open | Copernicus Open Access Hub |
| MWR (Microwave Radiometer) | Sentinel-3 | ESA | Microwave radiometers | Marine and Land Services. | Open | Copernicus Open Access Hub |
| TROPOMI | Sentinel-5p | ESA | Spectrometer | Supporting global atmospheric composition and air quality monitoring services. | Open | Copernicus Open Access Hub |
| Poseidon-4 (Poseidon-4 SAR Radar Altimeter) | Sentinel-6A | EUMETSAT, ESA | Radar altimeter | Nadir viewing sounding radar for provision of real-time high-precision sea surface topography, ocean circulation and wave height data. | Open | Podaac-JPL |
| AMR-C (Advanced Microwave Radiometer for Climate) | Sentinel-6A | EUMETSAT, NASA, NOAA, ESA | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave) | Capabilities of the AMR with the addition of an on-board calibrator for high stability wet-tropospheric path delay correction. | Open | Podaac-JPL |
| DORIS-NG (Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite-NG) | Sentinel-6A | EUMETSAT, ESA, CNES | Precision orbit | Precise orbit determination; Real time onboard orbit determination (navigation). | Open | Podaac-JPL |
| GNSS POD Receiver | Sentinel-6A | ESA, EUMETSAT | Precision orbit and atmospheric temperature and humidity sounders | Precision orbit determination. | Open | Podaac-JPL |
| GNSS-RO Receiver (GNSS Radio Occultation Receiver) | Sentinel-6A | NASA | Atmospheric temperature and humidity sounders | Measurement of bending angles of GNSS satellite signals occulted by Earth’s atmosphere for retrieval of temperature and humidity profiles. | Open | Podaac-JPL |
| LRA Laser Retroreflector Array | Sentinel-6A | NASA | Precision orbit | Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements. | Open | Podaac-JPL |
| EMT+ (Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus) | Landsat-7 | NASA | Whiskbroom scanning radiometer | Earth resources, land surface, environmental monitoring, agriculture and forestry, disaster monitoring and assessment, ice and snow cover. | Open | ESA Online Dissemination |
| OLI (Operational Land Imager) | Landsat-8 | NASA | Whiskbroom scanning radiometer | Earth resources, land surface, environmental monitoring, agriculture and forestry, disaster monitoring and assessment, ice and snow cover. | Open | ESA Online Dissemination |
| TIRS (Thermal Infrared Sensors) | Landsat-8 | NASA | Quantum Well Infra-Red Photodetector- Pushbroom instrument | Earth resources, land surface, environmental monitoring, agriculture and forestry, disaster monitoring and assessment, ice and snow cover. | Open | ESA Online Dissemination |
| FTS-2 (Fourier Transform Spectrometer 2) | Gosat-2 | JAXA | Spectrometer | CO2, CH4, and CO distribution. | Available on request | GOSAT-2 Product Archive |
| CAI-2 (Cloud and Aerosol Imager 2) | Gosat-2 | JAXA | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (VIS/IR) | Detection and correction of cloud and aerosol for TANSO-FTS, aerosol characteristics. | Available on request | GOSAT-2 Product Archive |
| SGLI-VNR (Second Generation Global Imager- Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer) | GCOM-C | JAXA | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (VIS/IR) and ocean colour instruments | Understanding of climate change mechanism. | Open Data (Data download upon registration) | G-Portal |
| SGLI-IRS (Second Generation Global Imager- Infrared Scanner) | GCOM-C | JAXA | Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) and ocean colour instruments | Understanding of climate change mechanism. | Open Data (Data download upon registration) | G-Portal |
| HiRI (High Resolution Imager) | Airbus Pleiades | AIRBUS Defence & Space, CNES | High resolution optical imagers | Cartography, land use, risk, agriculture and forestry, civil planning and mapping, digital terrain models, defence. | Available on request. Fees applicable for commercial and other users. | Earth Online |
| NAOMI (New Astrosat Optical Modular Instrument) | Airbus SPOT 6 | AIRBUS Defence & Space | High-resolution optical pushbroom imager | High-resolution, wide-area optical imagery, climatology, oceanography, monitoring human activities and natural phenomena. | Available on request. Fees applicable for commercial and other users. | Earth Online |
| NAOMI (New Astrosat Optical Modular Instrument) | Airbus SPOT 7 | AIRBUS Defence & Space | High-resolution optical pushbroom imager | High-resolution, wide-area optical imagery, climatology, oceanography, monitoring human activities and natural phenomena. | Available on request. Fees applicable for commercial and other users. | Earth Online |
| WV60 (WorldView-60 camera) | WorldView-1 | Maxar | Imaging and environment monitoring | Environment Monitoring. | Available on request. Fees applicable for commercial and other users. | Earth Online |
| WV110 (WorldView-110 camera) | WorldView-2 | Maxar | Pushbroom imager (or a line scan imaging system) | Provides commercially available panchromatic imagery of 0.46 m resolution, and eight-band multispectral imagery with 1.84 m resolution. | Available on request. Fees applicable for commercial and other users. | Earth Online |
| WV110 (WorldView-110 camera) | WorldView-3 | Maxar | Imaging and environment monitoring | WorldView-3 has bands for enhanced multispectral analysis (coastal blue, yellow, red edge, NIR2) designed to improve segmentation and classification of land and aquatic features. | Available on request. Fees applicable for commercial and other users. | Earth Online |
| WV110 (SpaceView-110 camera) | WorldView-4 | Maxar | Imaging and environment monitoring | Data collection for large-area mapping projects at the highest available resolution. | Available on request. Fees applicable for commercial and other users. | Earth Online |
