--- - description: "PROBA is minisatellite technology demonstration mission in ESA's General Study Program with the objective to address issues of on-board operational autonomy of a generic platform. The following functional capabilities and/or techniques are to be demonstrated:" description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/p/proba-1 end_date: 2014-12-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/project-for-on-board-autonomy.yaml identifier: project-for-on-board-autonomy name: Project for On-Board Autonomy platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2001-10-22T00:00:00 uri: /platform/project-for-on-board-autonomy url: http://earth.esa.int/proba/ - description: "QuikSCAT is a NASA ESE (Earth Science Enterprise) program satellite built by BATC (Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation) of Boulder, CO. The QuikSCAT mission was initiated in the wake of the lost NSCAT (NASA Scatterometer) instrument measurements aboard NASDA's ADEOS-1 satellite. The ADEOS-1 S/C ceased functioning on June 30, 1997." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/q/quikscat end_date: 2015-10-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/quick-scatterometer.yaml identifier: quick-scatterometer name: Quick Scatterometer platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1999-06-19T00:00:00 uri: /platform/quick-scatterometer url: http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/quikscat/index.cfm - description: "Initial spaceborne ozone (O ) observations started with the BUV (Backscatter Ultraviolet) sensor, a demonstration instrument flown on Nimbus-4 of NASA (launch April 8, 1970; sun-synchronous near-circular polar orbit, perigee = 1092 km, apogee = 1108 km, inclination = 80.1º, period = 107.2 minutes). The BUV instrument consisted of a double monochromator containing all reflective optics and a photomultiplier detector. The double monochromator was composed of two Ebert-Fastie-type monochromators in tandem. The objective was to monitor the vertical distribution and total amount of atmospheric ozone on a global scale by measuring the intensity of UV radiation backscattered by the Earth/atmosphere system during day and night in the spectral band of 25-34 nm. - The new measurement technique of BUV total column ozone data led to it's acceptance by the international ozone community as a possible data source comparable to the Dobson instrument in ground observations." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/t/toms end_date: 2001-09-21T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/quick-total-ozone-mapping-spectrometer.yaml identifier: quick-total-ozone-mapping-spectrometer name: Quick Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2001-09-21T00:00:00 uri: /platform/quick-total-ozone-mapping-spectrometer url: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/taurus/t6/010919quiktoms.html - description: 'RISAT is the first indigenous satellite imaging mission of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) using an active radar sensor system, namely a C-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imager, an important microwave complement to its optical IRS (Indian Remote Sensing Satellite) series observation missions. The overall objective of the RISAT mission is to use the all-weather as well as the day-and-night SAR observation capability in applications such as agriculture, forestry, soil moisture, geology, sea ice, coastal monitoring, object identification, and flood monitoring. The RISAT specifications have been drawn with the national requirements in mind.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/risat-1 end_date: 2017-04-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/radar-imaging-satellite.yaml identifier: radar-imaging-satellite name: Radar Imaging Satellite platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2012-04-26T00:00:00 uri: /platform/radar-imaging-satellite url: http://www.isro.org/ - description: "RADARSAT-1 is the first Canadian developed and commercially operated Earth observation satellite with the objective to monitor environmental change and the planet's natural resources in the microwave region. The observational SAR data is useful to both commercial and scientific users in such fields as disaster management, interferometry, agriculture, cartography, hydrology, forestry, oceanography, ice studies and coastal monitoring. The cooperative project involves the Canadian government under the aegis of CSA (Canadian Space Agency), and the private sector. NASA is a partner in the mission, providing launch services; in exchange, NASA is receiving RADARSAT data at ASF (Alaska SAR Facility), Fairbanks, Alaska." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/radarsat-1 end_date: 2013-03-29T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/radarsat-1.yaml identifier: radarsat-1 name: RADARSAT-1 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1995-11-04T00:00:00 uri: /platform/radarsat-1 url: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/default.asp - description: 'RADARSAT-2 is a jointly-funded satellite mission of CSA (Canadian Space Agency) and MDA (MacDonald Dettwiler Associates Ltd. of Richmond, BC), representing a Canadian government/industry partnership [or PPP (Public Private Partnership)] in a commercial venture. In Feb. 1998, CSA awarded a contract to MDA to built RADARSAT-2. The contract calls for MDA to develop, own and operate RADARSAT-2 and related infrastructure (including data distribution). CSA provides a fixed financial contribution to MDA (about 75%), in exchange for imagery allocation from the S/C to government agencies. Also, ORBIMAGE, an affiliate of Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC), Dulles, VA, is a significant participant in this program as the exclusive distributor of RADARSAT-2 imagery to U.S. customers.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/radarsat-2 end_date: 2015-04-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/radarsat-2.yaml identifier: radarsat-2 name: RADARSAT-2 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2007-12-14T00:00:00 uri: /platform/radarsat-2 url: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat2/default.asp - description: 'RapidEye is a full end-to-end commercial Earth Observation system comprising a constellation of five minisatellites, a dedicated SCC (Spacecraft Control Center), a data downlink ground station service, and a full ground segment designed to plan, acquire and process up to 5 million km of imagery every day to generate unique land information products.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/rapideye end_date: 2019-08-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/rapideye.yaml identifier: rapideye name: RapidEye platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2008-08-29T00:00:00 uri: /platform/rapideye url: http://www.rapideye.de/ - description: 'RASAT is a microsatellite imaging mission of TUBITAK-UZAY (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey - Space Technologies Research Institute), Ankara, Turkey. The project is funded by the State Planning Office. Note: Prior to May 2006, TUBITAK-UZAY was referred to as TUBITAK-BILTEN.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/rasat end_date: 2015-08-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/rasat-remote-sensing-satellite.yaml identifier: rasat-remote-sensing-satellite name: RASAT Remote Sensing Satellite platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2011-08-17T00:00:00 uri: /platform/rasat-remote-sensing-satellite url: http://www.uzay.tubitak.gov.tr/ - description: ~ description_attribution: ~ end_date: 2011-12-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/remote-sensing-satellite-1.yaml identifier: remote-sensing-satellite-1 name: Remote Sensing Satellite 1 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2007-12-01T00:00:00 uri: /platform/remote-sensing-satellite-1 url: http://www.inpe.br/programas/mecb/default.htm - description: 'IRS-P6 is an Earth observation mission within the IRS (Indian Remote-Sensing Satellite) series of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization), Bangalore, India. The overall objectives of the IRS-P6 mission (ResourceSat-1) are to provide continued remote sensing data services on an operational basis for integrated land and water resources management. IRS-P6 is the continuation of the IRS-1C/1D missions with considerably enhanced capabilities.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/irs-p6 end_date: 2013-12-07T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/resource-satellite-1.yaml identifier: resource-satellite-1 name: Resource Satellite-1 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2003-10-17T00:00:00 uri: /platform/resource-satellite-1 url: http://www.isro.org/ - description: 'ResourceSat-2 is a data continuity mission of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) with improved spectral bands of the IRS-P6/ResourceSat-1. Each ResourceSat satellite carries three electrooptical cameras as its payload: LISS-3, LISS-4 and AWiFS. All the three imagers are multispectral pushbroom scanners with linear array CCDs as detectors. The ResourceSat data find their application in several areas like agricultural crop discrimination and monitoring, crop acreage/yield estimation, precision farming, water resources, forest mapping, rural infrastructure development, disaster management etc. ResourceSat-2 provides continuity and increases the observation timeliness (repetivity) in tandem with ResourceSat-1.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/resourcesat-2 end_date: 2016-04-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/resource-satellite-2.yaml identifier: resource-satellite-2 name: Resource Satellite-2 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2011-04-20T00:00:00 uri: /platform/resource-satellite-2 url: http://www.isro.org/ - description: 'Resurs-O1 is a Russian/CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) satellite series. The program was initiated by the USSR defense ministry in 1977 with the objective of observing and monitoring natural Earth resources (similar in function and objectives to the Landsat series of the USA). The very successful early Landsat program (with launches of LS-1 on July 23, 1972, LS-2 on Jan. 22, 1975, LS-3 on March 5, 1978) prompted this reaction of the Soviet Union. The Resurs-O1 program was initially managed by ROSHYDROMET (State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring) of Moscow - and later by NPO Planeta, an institution of ROSHYDROMET. NPO Planeta was also the operator of the Resurs-O1 spacecraft series.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/resurs-o1 end_date: 1994-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/resource-satellite-first-series-number-2.yaml identifier: resource-satellite-first-series-number-2 name: Resource satellite first series number 2 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1988-01-01T00:00:00 uri: /platform/resource-satellite-first-series-number-2 url: http://spuntik1.infospace.ru/ - description: 'Resurs-O1 is a Russian/CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) satellite series. The program was initiated by the USSR defense ministry in 1977 with the objective of observing and monitoring natural Earth resources (similar in function and objectives to the Landsat series of the USA). The very successful early Landsat program (with launches of LS-1 on July 23, 1972, LS-2 on Jan. 22, 1975, LS-3 on March 5, 1978) prompted this reaction of the Soviet Union. The Resurs-O1 program was initially managed by ROSHYDROMET (State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring) of Moscow - and later by NPO Planeta, an institution of ROSHYDROMET. NPO Planeta was also the operator of the Resurs-O1 spacecraft series.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/resurs-o1 end_date: 1996-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/resource-satellite-first-series-number-3.yaml identifier: resource-satellite-first-series-number-3 name: Resource satellite first series number 3 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1994-11-04T00:00:00 uri: /platform/resource-satellite-first-series-number-3 url: http://spuntik1.infospace.ru/ - description: 'Resurs-O1 is a Russian/CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) satellite series. The program was initiated by the USSR defense ministry in 1977 with the objective of observing and monitoring natural Earth resources (similar in function and objectives to the Landsat series of the USA). The very successful early Landsat program (with launches of LS-1 on July 23, 1972, LS-2 on Jan. 22, 1975, LS-3 on March 5, 1978) prompted this reaction of the Soviet Union. The Resurs-O1 program was initially managed by ROSHYDROMET (State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring) of Moscow - and later by NPO Planeta, an institution of ROSHYDROMET. NPO Planeta was also the operator of the Resurs-O1 spacecraft series.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/resurs-o1 end_date: 2002-02-07T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/resource-satellite-first-series-number-4.yaml identifier: resource-satellite-first-series-number-4 name: Resource satellite first series number 4 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1998-07-10T00:00:00 uri: /platform/resource-satellite-first-series-number-4 url: http://sputnik1.infospace.ru/ - description: ~ description_attribution: ~ end_date: 1998-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/resource-satellite-f-series-number-1m.yaml identifier: resource-satellite-f-series-number-1m name: Resource satellite F series number 1M platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1995-01-01T00:00:00 uri: /platform/resource-satellite-f-series-number-1m url: http://spuntik1.infospace.ru/ - description: ~ description_attribution: ~ end_date: 1996-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/resource-satellite-f-series-number-2.yaml identifier: resource-satellite-f-series-number-2 name: Resource satellite F series number 2 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1993-01-01T00:00:00 uri: /platform/resource-satellite-f-series-number-2 url: http://spuntik1.infospace.ru/ - description: ~ description_attribution: ~ end_date: 1996-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/resource-satellite-f-series-number-2m.yaml identifier: resource-satellite-f-series-number-2m name: Resource satellite F series number 2M platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1996-01-01T00:00:00 uri: /platform/resource-satellite-f-series-number-2m url: http://spuntik1.infospace.ru/ - description: ~ description_attribution: ~ end_date: 1998-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/resource-satellite-f-series-number-3.yaml identifier: resource-satellite-f-series-number-3 name: Resource satellite F series number 3 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1993-01-01T00:00:00 uri: /platform/resource-satellite-f-series-number-3 url: http://spuntik1.infospace.ru/ - description: ~ description_attribution: ~ end_date: 1998-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/resurs-02.yaml identifier: resurs-02 name: Resurs-02 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1996-01-01T00:00:00 uri: /platform/resurs-02 url: http://spuntik1.infospace.ru/ - description: 'Ørsted is a geomagnetic research microsatellite mission of Denmark [named in honor of the Danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) who discovered electromagnetism in 1820]. The Ørsted mission was developed by a consortium of organizations including the NBI (Niels Bohr Institute) of the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of DMI (Danish Meteorological Institute), the Danish Space Research Institute (DSRI) of Copenhagen, Terma A/S, and Computer Resources International (now part of Terma A/S). International contributions were provided by NASA, CNES, DLR and ESA.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/o/oersted end_date: 2015-12-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/rsted-oersted.yaml identifier: rsted-oersted name: Oersted platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1999-11-21T00:00:00 uri: /platform/rsted-oersted url: http://web.dmi.dk/projects/oersted/