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Marine Parameters from Remote Sensors

Contents 1 Background 2 Current CEOS Catalog of Sensor Capabilities 3 Additional Resources 4 Subsections of this Article 5 Information about this article 6 Contact

Background

Current CEOS Catalog of Sensor Capabilities

• ATMOSPHERE
  • Aerosols
  • Atmospheric humidity fields
  • Atmospheric temperature fields
  • Atmospheric winds
  • Cloud particle properties and profile
  • Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature
  • Liquid water and precipitation rate
  • Ozone
  • Radiation budget
  • Trace gases (excluding ozone)
• LAND
  • Albedo and reflectance
  • Landscape topography
  • Soil moisture
  • Vegetation
  • Surface temperature (land)
  • Multi-purpose imagery (land)
• OCEAN
  • Ocean colour/biology
  • Ocean topography/currents
  • Ocean surface winds
  • Surface temperature (ocean)
  • Ocean wave height and spectrum
  • Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)
• SNOW AND ICE
  • Ice sheet topography
  • Snow cover, edge and depth
  • Sea ice cover, edge and thickness
• GRAVITY AND MAGNETIC FIELDS
  • Gravity, magnetic and geodynamic measurements

Additional Resources

• Committee on Earth Observing Satellites - "This is the Home Page for the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and its members. CEOS membership encompasses the world's government agencies responsible for civil Earth Observation (EO) satellite programs, along with agencies that receive and process data acquired remotely from space. "
• CEOS Earth Observation Handbook - "The report presents the main capabilities of satellite Earth observations, their applications, and a systematic overview of present and planned Earth observation satellite missions and their instruments."

Subsections of this Article

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Information about this article

Short title: Parameters and Sensors

Description: none

Expertise level: beginner

Author: Murray.Brown

Approval status: approved

Approved by: Murray.Brown

Last change: 2010-3-31

Subsection of: Remote Sensing Data Concepts

Contact

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