Satellites In Greater Detail

Advanced Land Observing Satellite

what does ALOS stand for?

Advanced Visible and Near-Infrared Radiometer Type 2

what does AVNIR-2 stand for?

Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping

what does PRISM stand for?

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS

what does AMSR-E stand for?

Earth Observing System

what is an EOS?

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

what does MODIS stand for?

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

what does AVHRR stand for?

Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer

what does AVIRIS stand for?

Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation

what does CALIPSO stand for?

Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer

what does MERIS stand for?

Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar

what does ASAR stand for?

Earth Observing

what does EO stand for?

Advanced Land Imager

what does ALI stand for?

Earth Remote Observation System-A1

what does EROS A1 stand for?

Global Precipitation Measurement

what does GPM stand for?

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

what does GRACE stand for?

Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite

what does ICESat stand for?

Indian Remote Sensing

what does IRS stand for?

Panchromatic

what does Pan stand for?

Linear Imaging Self-Scanning Sensor

what does LISS stand for?

Multispectral Scanning System

what does MSS stand for?

Thematic Mapper

what does TM stand for?

Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus

what does ETM+ stand for?

Operational Land Imager

what does OLI stand for?

Thermal Infrared Sensor

what does TIRS stand for?

Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership

what does Suomi NPP stand for?

Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite

what does VIIRS stand for?

ORBIMAGE

who operates the OrbView satellites?

Ocean Surface Topography Mission

what does OSTM stand for?

Synthetic Aperture Radar

what does SAR stand for?

Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor

what does SeaWiFs stand for?

European Space Agency

what does ESA stand for?

Soil Moisture Active Passive

what does SMAP stand for?

Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity

what does SMOS stand for?

Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre

what does SPOT stand for?

Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer

what does ASTER stand for?

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

what does TRMM stand for?

IKONOS

which satellite was the first commercial satellite?

pansharpening

the practice of combining all bands into one spectral range to create a smaller ground resolution