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Altimeters
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Imaging Radars
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Interferometers
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Interferometric Radiometers
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Magnetic Field/Electric Field Instruments
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Magnetic/Motion Sensors
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P-SAR
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Photon/Optical Detectors
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Positioning/Navigation
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Profilers/Sounders
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Radar Spectrometers
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Scatterometers
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Spectrometers
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Spectrometers/Radiometers
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Thermal/Radiation Detectors
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Aeolus
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ALOS-1
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Aura
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Biomass
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COSMO-SkyMed
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CryoSat
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Deimos
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Deimos-1
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Deimos-2
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DMC First Generation
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EarthCARE
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Envisat
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ERS
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ERS-1
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ERS-2
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FLEX
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GeoEye-1
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GOCE
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GOSAT
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GRACE
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ICEYE
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IKONOS-2
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IRS-1C
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IRS-1D
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IRS-P5
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IRS-P6
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IRS-R2
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JERS-1
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KOMPSAT-2
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Landsat
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Landsat-1
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Landsat-2
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Landsat-3
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Landsat-4
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Landsat-5
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Landsat-7
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Landsat-8
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Metop
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MSG
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NOAA
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OceanSat-2
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ODIN
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PAZ
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PlanetScope
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Pleiades
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PROBA-1
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PROBA-V
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QuickBird-2
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RADARSAT
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RADARSAT-1
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RADARSAT-2
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RapidEye
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SCISAT-1
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Seasat
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Sentinel-1
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Sentinel-2
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Sentinel-3
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Sentinel-5P
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SkySat
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SMOS
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Spire
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SPOT
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SPOT 1
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SPOT 2
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SPOT 3
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SPOT 4
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SPOT 5
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SPOT 6
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SPOT 7
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Swarm
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TanDEM-X
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TerraSAR-X
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WorldView
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WorldView-1
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WorldView-2
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WorldView-3
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AATSR
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ACC
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ACE-FTS
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AIRSAFE
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ALADIN
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AMI/SAR
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AMI/Scatterometer
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ASAR
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ASCAT
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ASM
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ATLID
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ATSR-1
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ATSR-2
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AVHRR
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AVNIR-2
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AwiFS
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BBR
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BGI
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CER
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CHRIS
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CPR
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CZCS
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DORIS
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EFI
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EGG
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EOC
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ETM
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FAI
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FLORIS
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GERB
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GIS
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GOME
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GOME-2
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GOMOS
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GPSR
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GRACE ACC
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GRACE INTERFEROMETER
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GRACE LRR
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GRACE SCA
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HiRAIS
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HiRI
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HIRS/2
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HRC
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HRG
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HRS
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HRV
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HRVIR
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IASI
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IRM
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LISS-3
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LISS-4
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LRR
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LRR
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MAESTRO
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MERIS
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MGF
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MHS
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MIPAS
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MIRAS
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MODIS
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MSI
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MSS
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MWR
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NAOMI
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NMS
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OCM-2
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OLI
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OMI
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OPS
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OSA
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OSIRIS
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PALSAR
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PAN
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PlanetScope Imager
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PRARE
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PRISM
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RA
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RA2/MWR
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RRI
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SAR
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SCIAMACHY
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SeaWiFS
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SeaWinds
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SEI
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SENSE
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SEVIRI
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SIRAL
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SkySat Camera
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SLIM6
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SMR
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SSTI
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Star Tracker
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STR
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STRATOS
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TANSO-CAI
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TANSO-FTS
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TIRS
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TM
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TSX-1
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VFM
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VGT
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WIF
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WV1
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WV6
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X-SAR
INSTRUMENTS
Explore the many instruments the European Space Agency use to observe the Earth. ESA offer data from a wide range of optical, radar, atmospheric, altimetric and gravimetric instrumentation.
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Instrument - Imaging Radars, Scatterometers
Instrument - Imaging Radars, Scatterometers
SAR (ERS)
The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument aboard ERS-1 and ERS-2 was capable of high precision change detection of surface heights.
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Instrument - Spectrometers
Instrument - Spectrometers
Vegetation (VGT)
The main PROBA-V payload is the Vegetation sensor (VGT): a multispectral pushbroom spectrometer.
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Instrument - Thermal/Radiation Detectors
Instrument - Thermal/Radiation Detectors
Thermal Infra-Red Scanner (TIRS)
TIRS on Landsat 8 is a thermal imager that supplements observations from the OLI instrument.
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Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers
Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers
SCIAMACHY
SCIAMACHY was an instrument aboard the Envisat satellite that measured atmospheric chemistry.
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Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers
Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers
MWR (Envisat)
The MWR aboard Envisat measured integrated atmospheric water vapour column and cloud liquid water.
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Instrument - Imaging Radars
Instrument - Imaging Radars
SAR (JERS-1)
The JERS-1 mission had a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) on board.
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Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers
Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers
MERIS
The MERIS instrument aboard Envisat was primarily dedicated to providing ocean colour measurements.
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Instrument - Photon/Optical Detectors
Instrument - Photon/Optical Detectors
HRC
HRC is a black and white camera with a miniaturised telescope on the PROBA-1 mission.
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Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers
Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers
CHRIS
Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer provides data of spectral reflectances.
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Instrument - Imaging Radars
Instrument - Imaging Radars
ASAR
ASAR ensures continuity with the image mode (SAR) and the wave mode of the ERS-1/2 AMI.
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Instrument - Imaging Radars, Scatterometers
Instrument - Imaging Radars, Scatterometers
SAR (ERS-2)
The SAR instrument aboard ERS-2 was capable of high precision change detection of surface heights.
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Instrument - Imaging Radars
Instrument - Imaging Radars
SAR (ERS-1)
The ERS-1 satellite, launched on 17 July 1991, carried a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).
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Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers
Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers
MIRAS
The MIRAS instrument is a passive microwave 2-D interferometric radiometer onboard the SMOS satellite.
