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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 - Altimeters
Instrument - Altimeters
RA (ERS)
The Radar Altimeter (RA) was a Ku-band (13.8 GHz) nadir-pointing active microwave sensor, on board ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions, designed to measure echoes from ocean and ice surfaces.
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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 - Altimeters
Instrument - Altimeters
RA (ERS-2)
The RA on ERS-2 was a Ku-band nadir-pointing active microwave sensor designed to measure echoes from ocean and ice surfaces.
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Instrument - Altimeters
Instrument - Altimeters
RA (ERS-1)
The RA on ERS-1 was a Ku-band nadir-pointing active microwave sensor designed to measure echoes from ocean and ice surfaces.
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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 - Imaging Radars
Instrument - Imaging Radars
PALSAR
The ALOS PALSAR was a successor sensor to the synthetic aperture radar on-board JERS-1.