BackForwardInstrument:  PLATiNO TIR 

Instrument details
Acronym PLATiNO TIR
Full name PLATiNO Thermal IR radiometer
Purpose To measure surface parameters such as vegetation, temperature, sea-ice cover, lakes, glaciers.
Short description
  • A multispectral infrared radiometer with channels centred at 8.6, 9.1, 10.3 & 11.5 µm
  • Temperature accuracy <1.5K
Background
  •  New development by ASI
Scanning Technique

Ground cross track swath 40 km
Resolution Across track 40m, along track 60m.
Coverage / Cycle Mean revisit time for nadir view < 30 days for area of interest. Mean revisit time for off nadir (30 deg) view < 3 days.
Mass Power Data Rate

 

Providing Agency ASI
Instrument Maturity Flown on an R&D satellite
Utilization Period: 2026 to 2029
Last update: 2025-09-08
Detailed characteristics
Satellites this instrument is flying on

Note: a red tag indicates satellites no longer operational, a green tag indicates operational satellites, a blue tag indicates future satellites

Instrument classification
  • Earth observation instrument
  • Passive optical radiometer or spectrometer
  • High resolution optical imager
WIGOS Subcomponents
  • Subcomponent 1
  • High-resolution multi-spectral VIS/IR imagers
  • High-resolution multi-spectral VIS/IR imager
Mission objectives
Primary mission objectives
  • Fire fractional cover
  • Glacier cover
  • Lake area
  • Land surface temperature
  • Ocean temperature
  • Snow cover
Evaluation of Measurements

The following list indicates which measurements can typically be retrieved from this category of instrument. To see a full Gap Analysis by Variable, click on the respective variable.

Note: table can be sorted by clicking on the column headers
Note: * Primary mission objective.
VariableRelevance for measuring this variableOperational limitationsExplanation
Cloud cover5 - marginalInfrequent coverage.TIR window channel(s) around 11 micrometers
Cloud top height4 - fairInfrequent coverage.TIR window channels around 11 micrometers to estimate cloud top height from its temperature
Cloud top temperature4 - fairInfrequent coverage.TIR window channels around 11 micrometers
Fire fractional cover*2 - very highCloud sensitive.. Infrequent coverage.TIR window channel(s) around 11 micrometers
Fire radiative power5 - marginalCloud sensitive.. Infrequent coverage.TIR window channel(s) around 11 micrometers
Fire temperature5 - marginalCloud sensitive.. Infrequent coverage.TIR window channel(s) around 11 micrometers
Land surface temperature*4 - fairCloud sensitive.. Infrequent coverage.TIR split window channels around 11 micrometers for water vapour correction
Sea surface temperature4 - fairCloud sensitive.. Infrequent coverage.TIR split window channels for water vapour correction
Integrated Water Vapour (IWV)4 - fairCloud sensitive.. Low troposphere dominant.. Infrequent coverage.TIR channels in the 11 micrometers split window