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Table of Content

1. Abstract. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 02

2. Introduction To Satellites. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 03

a. Definition Of Satellite. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

b. Categories Of Satellite…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

c. List Of The Sensors. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. Description About Remote Sensing. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………27

a. Missions Of The Remote Sensing Satellites………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………………

4. Description About Dataset. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 32

a. Definition Of Dataset. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

b. Parameters Of Dataset. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

5. Satellite Catalogue Procedure………………………………………………………………………...……………….………………………………………………… 34

6. References. ……………………………………………………………...................................................................................................................................................... 37

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ABSTRACT:

This paper describes a comprehensive research work on available datasets on Remote Sensing Satellites since the time of its beginning. Some of the important criteria were

kept in mind while doing this assignment such as satellite names, altitudes, swath widths, resolutions, owner of the satellites, and agency or launch vehicles of the satellites

etc.

First portion describes the introduction to the satellites, second deals with the remote sensing satellites, third encounters with the description of the datasets while on fourth

portion whole of the satellite catalogue be there and last one, fifth portion, is on the references side.

The assignment was given by “Sir. Asim Dawood” under the Department of Space Sciences, University of the Punjab.

This paper work was done by 05th

semester, BS.(Hons.), session 2009-13 by the team effort of the following students:

1. Mr. Asif Butt (SS09-05)

2. Miss. Atiqa Ijaz Khan (SS09-03)

3. Miss. Rabbia Mehmod (SS09-14)

4. Miss. Rabia Zahoor (SS09-28)

5. Miss. Rafia Naheed (SS09-09)

6. Mr. Usama Maqsood (SS09-25)

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INTRODUCTION TO SATELLITES

Definition of Satellites:

“A satellite is something that goes around and around the earth or another planet”.

Some satellites are natural, like the moon, which is a natural satellite of the earth. Other satellites are made by

scientists and technologists to go around the earth.

Some satellites send and receive television signals. The signal is sent from a station on the earth's surface. The

satellite receives the signal and rebroadcasts it to other places on the earth. With the right number of satellites in

space, one television program can be seen all over the world.

Some satellites send and receive telephone, fax, and computer communications. Satellites make it possible to

communicate by telephone, fax, Internet, or computer with anyone in the world. Other satellites observe the world's weather, feeding weather information into giant

computer programs that help scientists know what the weather will be. The weather reporters on your TV news program get their information from those scientists.

Some satellites take very accurate pictures of the earth's surface, sending back images that tell scientists about changes that are going on around the world and about crops,

water, and other resources.

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Categories Of Satellites:

1. On the basis of Height:

Satellite Categories on the Basis of Heigth

Low Earth Orbit

Medium Earth Orbit

High Earth Orbit

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2. On basis of Missions:

Satellite categories on basis of their usage

Meterological Satellites

Defence Satellites

Remote

Sensing

Satllites

Communication

Satellites

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List Of The Sensors:

The following is the list of few important sensors mostly used in Remote Sensing Satellites. They are 324 in numbers.

Name Description No of

Bands

Mission

ADCS/SARSAT Advanced Data Collection System/Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking NPOESS-3,4 & 6

A-DCS4 ARGOS - Data collection system GOES - P

AATSR Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer 7 EnviSat

ACE-FTS Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment - Fourier Transform Spectrometer SCISAT

ACS Atmospheric Correction Sensor ResourceSat 3

Active Phased Array SAR X band 1 TanDEM - X

AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder 7 Aqua

AEISS Advanced Earth Imaging Sensor System 4 KompSat 3

ALI Advanced Land Imager 9 EO-1

Aladin Atmospheric LAser Doppler INstrument ADM-Aeolus

ALISSA L'atmosphere par Lidar Sur Saliout 1 Priroda-MIR

ALMAZ-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 ALMAZ-1

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AlSat Standard DMC sensor 3 AlSat-1

ALT Dual Frequency Radar Altimeter 2 TOPEX/Poseidon

ALT (Seasat) Altimeter 1 SeaSat

ALtika High resolution Altimeter including bi-frequency radiometric function SARAL

AMI Active Microwave 1 ERS -1 & 2

AMR Advanced Microwave Radiometer Jason 2

AMSR Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 8 ADEOS-II

AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS 6 Aqua

AMSR2 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer GCOM-W

AMSU-A Advanced Microwave Sounding 15 NOAA-15,16,17,18

AMSU-B Advanced Microwave Sounding 5 NOAA-15, 16

APS Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor GLORY

ASAR Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 EnviSat

ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer 14 Terra

ATLID High spectral resolution LIDAR EarthCARE

ATSR-1 Along Track Scanning Radiometer 4 ESR 1

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ATSR-2 Along Track Scanning Radiometer 7 ESR 2

AVHRR/2 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 5 MetOp A, NOAA-10,11,12,14

AVHRR/3 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 6 NOAA-15,16,17,18

AVNIR Advanced visible near-infrared Radiometer 5 ADEOS

AVNIR-2 Adv. visible and near-infrared radiometer (type 2) 4 ALOS

AWFI Wide Field Imaging Camera 4 CBERS 3 & 4

AWiFS Advanced Wide Field Sensor A and B 4 RESOURCESAT 1 & 2

BBR Broadband Radiometer EarthCARE

BEIJING-1-MS Standard DMC sensor 3 BEIJING 1

BILSAT-MS 4 BILSAT

BILSAT-PAN 1 BILSAT

Camera Multispectral camera with black and white and color imaging Svea

CCD Multispectral Camera 5 CBERS 3 & 4

CCD Multispectral Camera 4 CBERS & CBERS 2

CCD-TDI Selectable 1 EROS C

CCD/TDI Selectable-Multispectral posibility EROS B

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CCSP Cloud Camera Sensor Package GLORY

CERES Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System 3 Aqua, NPOESS-

1,3,4,6,TRMM,Terra

Chinese Mapping

Telescope

1 BEIJING 1

CHRIS Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer 18 PROBA

COBAN 9 BILSAT

COSI Corea SAR Instrument 1 KompSat 5

CPR Cloud Profiling RADAR EarthCARE

CrIMSS Cross track Infrared and Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder 3 NPOESS -1,3,4,6

CZCS Coastal Zone Color Scanner 6 NIMBUS 7

DK-1 camera 1

DK-2 camera 1

DMC2 Standard DMC sensor 3 UK-DMC 2

DORIS Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite 2

DORIS Doris receiver

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DORIS

DPR Dual frequency Precipitation Radar GPM Core

E-OP1 Panachromatic and 4 band color imager NigeriaSat 2

E-OP2 Wide area coverage imager NigeriaSat 2

EOC Electro-Optical Camera 1 KOMPSAT 1

EP TOMS Earth Probe-Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer 6 Earth Probe

ERB Earth Radiation Budget 13 NIMBUS 7

ERBE Earth Radiation Budget Experiment 4 NOAA 10

EROS A 1 EROS A

ETM Enhanced Thematic Mapper 8 LandSat 7

FRS Strip map mode RISAT

GERB Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget 2 MSG 1 & 2

GIS-MS Visible and NIR 4 GEOEYE 1

GIS-PAN Panachromatic 1 GEOEYE 1

GLAS Geoscience Laser Altimeter System 2 ICESat

GLI Global Imager 36 ADEOS II

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GMI Microwave Radar Instruement GPM Core

GOME Global Monitoring of Atmospheric Ozone 6

GOME - 2 Global Monitoring of Atmospheric Ozone 6 ERS 2, MetOp A

GOES Comms Communication packages on GOES GOES-P

GOES Imager Multi channel instrument to sense radiant and solar reflected energy 5 GOES-O

GOES Sounder 19 channel discrete-filter radiometer 19 GOES-O

GOMOS Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars 3 ENVISAT

GUVI Global Ultraviolet Imager TIMED

HCS High Sensitivity Camera 1 SAC-C

HEPD High Energy Particle Detector 7 KOMPSAT 1

HIRDLS High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder 21 AURA

HiRI High Resolution Optical Imager Pleiades HR 1

HIRS/2 High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder 20 NOAA-10,11,14

HIRS/3 High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder 20 NOAA-15,16,17

HIRS/4 High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder 20 NOAA-18, MetOp A

HIS Hyperspectral Instrument 200 EnMAP

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HPO High Performance Optical sensor ASNARO

HQSAR High Quality SAR TerraSAR - X

HRC High Resolution Camera 1 PROBA

HRG High Resolution Geometric 4 SPOT 5

HRS High Resolution Stereoscopic 1 SPOT 5

HRTC High Resolution Technological Camera 1 SAC-C

HRV High Resolution Visible 4 SPOT 1

HRVIR High Resolution Visible and Infra-red 4 SPOT 4

HSB Humidity Sounder for Brazil 4 Aqua

HSRS Hot Spot Recognition Sensor System 2 BIRD

Hyperion High resolution hyperspectral imager with 220 spectral bands 220 EO-1

HySI Hyper Spectral Camera with 64 fixed bands 64 IMS 1

IDEE Instrument for Detection of high Energy Electrons TARANIS

IKAR-DELTA 3 PRIRODA-MIR

IKAR-N 5 PRIRODA-MIR

IKAR-P 2 PRIRODA-MIR

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ILAS Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer 2 ADEOS

ILAS-II Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer-II 4 ADEOS-II

IMA Multispectral Imager operating in 5 bands 5 Agro (RapidEye 6)

Imager 5 GOES 8,9,10 & P, L

Imager-M 5 GOES M

IMG Interferometer Monitor for Greenhouse Gases 1 ADEOS

IMM Instrument for Magnetic Measurements TARANIS

IMS Ionosphere Measurement Sensor 1 KOMPSAT 1

IPEI Ionosphere Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument 4 FORMOSAT 1

IR-MSS Infrared Multispectral scanner 4 CBERS & CBERS 2

IRMSS Medium Resolution scanner 4 CBERS 3 & 4

ISTOK-1 Infrared Spectrometer 64 PRIRODA-MIR

ISUAL Imager of Sprites and Upper Atmospheric Lightning FORMOSAT 2

Imager(INSAT) The Imager is an improved design of VHRR/2 (Very High Resolution Radiometer) 6 INSAT 3D

JAMI Japanese Advanced meteorological Imager 5 MTSAR-1R

JMR Jason-1 Microwave Radiometer 3 Jason-1

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Kompsat-MSC B&W panachromatic, MSS and merged 1m resolution images 4 KOMPSAT 2

KVR-1000 1 Cosmos

LAC LEISA Atmospheric Corrector, corrects high spatial resolution multispectral data for

atmospheric effects on surface reflectance

256 EO-1

LAR Laser Retoflector Array Jason-2 (OSTM)

Laser Reflector CryoSat-2

LBI SAR - L band SAOCOM-1A

LCT Laser Communication Terminal TanDEM-X

LIMS Limb infrared monitor of the Atmosphere 6 NIMBUS-7

LIS Lightning Imaging sensor 1 TRMM

LISS 1 Linear Imagine Self Scanning System 4 IRS-1 A & B

LISS 2 Linear Imagine Self Scanning System 4 IRS-1 A , B & P2

LISS 3 Linear Imagine Self Scanning System 4 IRS-1 C & D

LISS 3* Linear Imagine Self Scanning System 4 RESOURCESAT-1

LISS 4 Linear Imagine Self Scanning System 3 RESOURCESAT-1,2

LISS-III-WS Wide Swath sensor 4 RESOURCESAT-3

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LRA Dorris precise orbitography system with Laser Retroflector SARAL

LRIT Low-Rate Information Transmission GOES-P

MAC Pan 1 RazakSat (MACSAT)

MAC Multispectral 4 RazakSat (MACSAT)

MADRAS Microwave Imager MEGHA-TROPIQUES

MAESTRO Measurements of Aerosol Extinction in the Stratosphere and Troposphere Retrieved by

Occultation

SCISAT

MCP Micro Camera and Photometer TARANIS

MERIS Medium Resolution Imaging Specrometer Instrument 15 ENVISAT

MESSR Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer 4 MOS 1 & 1b

MEXIC Multi Experimental Interface Controller TARANIS

MHS Microwave Humidity Sounder 5 NOAA 18 & MetOp A

MIPAS Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding 5 ENVISAT

MIRAS Microwave Imaging Radiometer Apeture Synthesis SMOS

MIS Microwave Imager/Sounder NPOESS 1,4,3,6

MISR Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer 4 Terra

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MLS Microwave Limb Sounder 5 AURA

MMRS MultiSpectral Medium Resolution Scanner 5 SAC-C

MMSAR Multi Mode SAR TecSAR

MODI Moderate Radiation Visible and NIR Imager Feng Yun 3A

MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (PFM on Terra, FM1 on Aqua) 36 Terra, Aqua

MOMS-2P Modular Optoelectronic Multispectral Scanner 4 PRORODA-MIR

MOPITT Measurement Of Pollution In The Troposphere 64 Terra

MOS Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer 18 IRS-P3

MOS-A Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer 4 PRORODA-MIR

MOS-B Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer 13 PRORODA-MIR

MRS, CRS Scan SAR mode RISAT

MS Camera Multispectral Camera for three bands 3 THEOS

MS Camera Derived from SPOT camera, has thermo-elastic stability 4 Kanopus-Vulkan

MS Camera Multispectral Camera Deimos 1

MSC Multispectral 12 VENUS

MSI Multi spectral instrument 13 Sentinel-2

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MSI Multispectral Imager 7 EarthCARE

MSMR Multifrequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer 4 IRS-P4

MSR Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 MOS- 1, 1b

MSS Multispectral Scanner 4 Alsat-2A, LandSat 4,5

MSS (LS 1-3) Multispectral Scanner Landsat 1,2,3 5 LandSat 1,2,3

MSU Microwave Sounding Unit 4 NOAA 10,11,12,14

MSU-E Microwave Sounding Unit 3 RESURS-O1-3

MSU-E1 3 RESURS-O1

MSU-E2 3 PRORODA-MIR

MSU-SK 5 PRORODA-MIR

MSU-SK (Resurs) 5 RESURS-O1-3

MSU-SK1 5 RESURS-O1

MSU-GS Multispectral Scanner - Geostationary 5 Electro L/GMOS 2

MTI Multi-spectral Thermal Imager 16 MTI

MUX 3 CBERS 3, 4

MVISR Multichannel Visible and IR Scan Radiometer 10 Feng Yung 1C & 1D

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MWR Microwave Radiometer 2 Sentinel 3

MWR Microwave Radiometer ENVISAT

MWRI Microwave Radiation Imager Feng Yung 3A

Mx Four band multispectral CCD camera 4 IMS 1

NigeriaSat-1 Standard DMC sensor 3 NigeriaSat-1

NSCAT NASA Scatterometer 1 ADEOS

OCI Ocean Color Imager 7 FORMOSAT-1

OCM Ocean Color Monitor 8 OceanSat-2, IRS-P4

OCTS Ocean Color and Temperature scanner 12 ADEOS

OLCI Ocean and Land Color Instrument Sentinel 3

OLI Operational Land Imager 9 LDCM LandSat 8

OLS Operational Linescan System 3 DMSP-16

OMI Ozone Monitoring Instrument 3 AURA

OMPS Ozone Mapping and Profile Suite NPOESS 1,3,4,6

OPS Optical Sensor 8 JERS-1

Orbview-3 5 Orbview-3

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OSA Optical Sensor Assembly 5 IKONOS

OSIRIS Optical Spectograph and Infrared Imaging System ORDIN

OSMI Ocean Scanning Multi-spectral Imager 6 KOMPSAT-1

OTD Optical Transient Detector 1 Orbview-1

OIS Optical Imaging System 3 RASAT

OZON-M 4 PRORODA-MIR

PALSAR L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 ALOS

PAMELA 4 Resurs DK

PAN 1 CBERS-4

PAN 1 CBERS-3, IRS-1C &1D

PAN Panachromatic Camera 1 CartoSAT-2B

PAN Camera Panachromatic Camera 1 IRS P7 (CartoSat2)

PAN Camera Panachromatic Camera 1 Kanopus-Vulkan

PAN Telescope 1 THEOS

PAN-A Panchromatic-Aft pointing 1 CartoSat-1

PAN-F Panchromatic-Forward pointing 1 CartoSat-1

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PANC Panchromatic camera 1 CartoSat-2a

POAM-II Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement 9 SPOT 3

POAM-III Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement 9 SPOT 4

POLDER Polarization and directionality of the Earth's reflectance 15 ADEOS, ADEOS-II, Parasol

Poseidon 2 altimeter 2 Jason-1

PR Preciptation Radar 2 TRMM

PRISM Three panchromatic sensors for Stereomapping 1 ALOS

PVI Performance Vegetation Instrument 4 PROBA 5

Quickbird 4 Quickbird

R-400 1 PRORODA-MIR

RA Radio Altimeter 2 ERS 1, ERS 2

RA-2 Radio Altimeter 3 ENVISAT

Radar Altimeter 1 GFO

Radar sensor SMAP

RADARSAT 2 Radar RADARSAT-2

Radiometer L –band SMAP

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RBV Return Beam Vidicon Camera 4 LandSat 1

RIS Reflector in space 1 ADEOS

REIS Records five spectral bands in Visible and NIR 5 RapidEye

ROCSAT-2 5 FORMOSAT-2

ROSA Radio Occultation sounder for Atmospheric studies OceanSat-2

RSI Remote Sensing Instrument 4 FORMOSAT-5

S-VISSR S-Visible and IR Spin Scan Radiometer 4 FengYun 2A & 2B

SABER Multi channel radiometer TIMED

SAC-D L-band radiometer /Scatterometer Aquarius

SAM II Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement 1 NIMBUS 7

SAMS Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder 9 NIMBUS 7

SAPHIR Microwave Sounding Instrument MEGHA-TROPIQUES

SAR (JERS-1) Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 JERS-1

SAR (RadarSat-1) Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 RADARSAT-1

SAR (Seasat) Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 SEASAT

SAR 2000 RADAR 1 COSMO-SkyMed

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SAR-L L band SAR MAPSAR

SASS Seasat-A Satellite Scatterometer 1 SEASAT

SBUV/2 Solar Backscatter Ultra violet instrument 12 NOAA-11,12,14-18

SBUV/TOMS Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet/Total Ozone Mapping-failed in 1993 6 NIMBUS-7

SCARAB Scanning Radiative Budget Instrument MEGHA-TROPIQUES

Scatterometer OceanSat-2

SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography 8 ENVISAT

SeaWiFS Sea viewing Wide Field Sensor 8 Orbview-2

Seawinds 1 ADEOS-II, QuickSCAT

SEE Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Experiment TIMED

SEM Space Environment Monitor GOES-P

SEM - Space E To measure solar radiation in the X-ray and EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) region 7 GOES-O

SEVIRI Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager 12 MSG-1 & MSG-2

SGLI Second Generation Global Imager 35 GCOM-C

SIM Spectral Irradiance Monitor 1 SORCE

SIR-C 1 SRTM

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SIRAL Interferometric Radar Altimeter CryoSat-2

SLSTR Sea and Land Surface Temparature Radiometer Sentinel-3

SMMR Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer 5 SeaSat, NIMBUS-7

SOLSTICE A & B SOlar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment 1 SORCE

Sounder 19

Sounder Sounder on GOES GOES-9,10, L,P,M

SRAL SAR Radar Altimeter Sentinel-3

SSJ/5 Preciptating Particle Spectrometer DMSP-16

SSMIS Special Sensor Micowave Imager/Sounder 4 DMSP-16

SSU Stratospheric Sounder Unit 3 NOAA-11,14

SSULI Ultraviolet Limb Imager DMSP-16

SSUSI Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager DMSP-16

STR Scanning Television Radiometer 3 Elektro-L

SLIM6 Surrey Linear Imager Multispectral 6 channels - but 3 spectral bands 3 NigeriaSat X

SXI Solar X-ray Imager GOES-P

SXI - Solar X-Ray To monitor the sun's X-rays GOES-O

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Imager

TANSO - CAI Thermal And NIR Sensor for carobon Obervation - Cloud & Aerosal Imager 4 GOSAT (IBUKI)

TANSO - FTS Thermal And NIR Sensor for carobon Obervation - Fourier Transform Spectrometer 4 GOSAT (IBUKI)

TANSO - FTS Greenhouse Gases Sensor GOSAT (IBUKI)

TDI Panchromatic 1 ALSAT-2A

TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer 12 AURA

THIR Temperature Humidity Infrared Radiometer 2 NIMBUS-7

TIDI Timed Doppler Interferemeter TIMED

TIM Total Irradiance Monitor 1 SORCE

TIR Total Irradiance Monitor GLORY

TK-350 1 COSMOS

TM Thematic Mapper 7 LandSat 4, 5

TMI TRMM Microwave Imager 5 TRMM

TMR TOPEX Microwave Radiometer 3 TOPEX/Poseidon

TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (see also SBUV/TOMS) 6 adeos

TopSat 1 TopSat

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TOR Package Tracking, Occupation and Ranging TanDEM-X

Travers SAR 2 PRORODA-MIR

TV Camera 1 PRORODA-MIR

UK-DMC Standard DMC sensor 3 UK-DMC

VEGETATION VEGETATION 2 on Spot 5 4 SPOT5

VHRR Very High Resolution Radiometer 2 INSAT 2A, 2B, 2E

VIIRS Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiameter Suite NPOESS-1,3,4,6

VIRR Visible and IR Radiometer 2 SeaSat

VIRR Visible and IR Radiometer 2 FengYun 3A

VIRS Visible and Infra red scanner 5 TRMM

VISSR Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer 3 Meteosat 5,6,7

VISSR (GMS) Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer 4 GSM-5

VTIR Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer 4 MOS1, MOS1b

WAOSS-B Wide-Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner 2 BIRD

Water Vapor

Radiometer

2 GFO

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WFI Wide field imager 2 CBERS, CBERS-2

WiFS Wide Field Sensor 3 IRS-1C, 1D, P3

WindSat 5 Coriolis

WorldView 1 Provides highly detailed imagery for precise map creation and in-depth image analysis 1 WorldView 1

WV110 Standard 4 colors + New 4 colors 8 WorldView 2

WV60 PAN 1 WorldView 2

WV 3 PAN WorldView 3 Panchromatic sensor 1 WorldView 3

WV 3 MSS WorldView 3 Multispectral sensor 8 WorldView 3

X-SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar 1 STRM

XGRE X-ray and Gamma Relativistic Electron detector TARANIS

XPS XUV Photometer 1 SOECE

YaoGan-5 YaoGan-5

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Description About Remote Sensing Satellites

Remote Sensing is one of the major disciplines of the recent technological century. Without this no developed country can make a remarkable progress even now its also

the need of under developed countries.

Mostly the Remote Sensing satellites operate under low Earth to medium Earth altitude range, having different combinations of bands and resolutions. Also their swath

width varies from the range of kilometers to meters as the technology revives. Therefore, it is the basic aspect of the of the modern century that not only help the military

assessment but also going to be in best for the civilian purposes now a days and hopefully in the near future.

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A Remote Sensing Satellite

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Mission of the Remote Sensing Satellites:

Some of the remote sensing satellites launched by various countries are given below. They have been grouped into three categories according to their functions.

1. Group 1: Primarily Land Observers.

Satellite Name Launch Year

Landsat (1-6) 1973

Seasat 1978

HCMM 1978

SPOT (France) (1-3) 1986

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2. Group 2: Primarily Meteorological Observers.

Satellite Name Launch year

TIROS (1-9) 1960

Nimbus (1-7) 1964

ESSA (1-9) 1966

ATS(g) (1-3) 1966

DMSP series I 1966

the Russian Kosmos 1969

the Russian Meteor series 1969

ITOS series 1970

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3. Group 3: Major use in Oceanography

Remote Sensing Satellites Launching Year

DMSP series 2 1976

GMS series (Japan)9 1977

Meteosat(g) series (Europe) 1978

TIROS-N series 1978

Bhaskara (India) 1979

NOAA (6-14) 1982

Insat ( India) 1983

ERBS 1984

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Introduction to the Datasets

Definition of the Dataset:

“The term data set refers to a file that contains one or more records”.

Datasets consist of all of the information gathered during a survey which needs to be analyzed. Any named group of records is called a data set.

Data sets can be cataloged, which permits the data set to be referred to by name without specifying where it is stored. A record is a fixed number of bytes containing data.

The term field refers to a specific portion of a record used for a particular category of data. The records in a data set can be organized in various ways, depending on how

we plan to access the information.

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Parameters for Datasets:

Data is always arranged on the basis of some scientific background.

Whether dealing with images taken by the help of satellites or the specifications of them.

Citation Format

1. Author Name (Agency supporting the dataset)

2. Publication Date (Processing date)

3. Collection Name (Satellite or its sensor name)

4. Image Name (Specified by the dataset owner of site)

5. Publisher (Agency)

6. Publisher Location (Country)

7. Product Coverage Date (Acquisition date in metadata)

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Catalogue Procedure:

Remote Sensing Satellite Catalogue has been prepared on “Microsoft Access 2007” by the concept of DBMS (Database Management System).

Portions of the Database:

It is divided into three portions:

1. Satellite Catalogue Database.

2. Satellite Catalogue Form.

3. Satellite Catalogue Report.

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Database From

Repot

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Important Points:

1. The primary key is the “’.

2. Secondary key can also be utilized to facilitate the procedure.

3. One of the major benefits of using the Access is that the new entry is much more easy to tackle.

4. By the help of the Access we can easily sort out the data on the basis any arrangement we want like it can be sorted out in alphabetic order from A-Z or from Z-A, up to our

own choice.

5. We can easily query out for such a comprehensive datasets.

6. It can be displayed in some other formats like Form or Report.

7. Also more helpful in printing but one drawback is that size of the new column entry is limited.

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References:

1. http://www.astrium.eads.net

2. http://www.astrium-geo.com

3. http://www.century-of-flight.net

4. http://www.isro.org/

5. http://www.nkau.gov.ua

6. http://www.rammb.cira.colostate.edu

7. http://www.reentrynews.aero.org

8. http://www.satimagingcorp.com

9. http://www. space.skyrocket.de

10. http://www.topsat.org/