earth online
  • All Categories
  • Data
  • News
  • Missions
  • Events
  • Tools
  • Activities
  • Instruments
  • Campaigns
  • Documents

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.

  • Instrument - Scatterometers

    prompt photo

    WS

    The Wind Scatterometer (WS) instrument, on board the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions, obtained information on wind speed and direction over the sea surface.

  • Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

    prompt photo

    Vegetation (VGT)

    The main PROBA-V payload is the Vegetation sensor (VGT): a multispectral pushbroom spectrometer.

  • Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

    prompt photo

    Thermal Infra-Red Sensor (TIRS)

    TIRS on Landsat-8 mission is a thermal imager that supplements observations from the OLI (Operational Land Imager) instrument.

  • Instrument - Imaging Radars

    prompt photo

    SAR (JERS-1)

    The JERS-1 mission had a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) on board.

  • Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

    prompt photo

    PRISM

    PRISM was a panchromatic radiometer on the ALOS-1 mission with 2.5 m spatial resolution at nadir.

  • Instrument - Imaging Radars

    prompt photo

    PALSAR

    The ALOS-1 PALSAR was a successor sensor to the synthetic aperture radar on board JERS-1.

  • Instrument - Interferometers

    prompt photo

    MIPAS

    MIPAS was an atmospheric instrument carried aboard the Envisat satellite.

  • Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

    prompt photo

    MERIS

    The MERIS instrument aboard Envisat was primarily dedicated to providing ocean colour measurements.

  • Instrument - Spectrometers

    prompt photo

    GOMOS

    GOMOS is a medium resolution spectrometer covering the wavelength range from 250 nm to 950 nm.

  • Instrument - Spectrometers

    prompt photo

    GOME

    The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) was a nadir-scanning ultraviolet and visible spectrometer for global monitoring of atmospheric Ozone.

  • Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

    prompt photo

    AVNIR-2

    The Advanced Visible and Near-Infrared Radiometer-2 (AVNIR-2) was a visible and near infrared radiometer for observing land and coastal zones.

  • Instrument - Imaging Radars

    prompt photo

    ASAR

    ASAR ensures continuity with the image mode (SAR) and the wave mode of the ERS-1/2 AMI.

  • Instrument - Lidar/Laser Sounders

    prompt photo

    ALADIN

    ALADIN, on board Aeolus, is a Direct Detection Doppler Wind Lidar operating in the ultraviolet range.

  • Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

    prompt photo

    AATSR

    The AATSR instrument aboard Envisat was primarily designed to measure Sea Surface Temperature.

Cookies & Privacy

We use cookies which are essential for you to access our website and to provide you with our services and allow us to measure and improve the performance of our website. Please consult our Cookie Notice for further information or to change your preferences.