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Details on this mission type
Full name High-resolution imagery for land observation
Definition This type of mission designates imagers, with various trade-offs between high spatial resolution and swath width, often steerable to enable in-flight selection of the area to be observed within the field of regard.
Relevant instruments and their contribution

The sorting column describes how the instruments, by design, have the potential to contribute to certain pre-determined capabilities, assuming nominal operation of space and ground segments. For this particular capability, instrument performance is considered to be driven by:

  • the extension of the spectral range through the VIS, NIR and SWIR bands;
  • the channel bandwidths, or the hyperspectral capability;
  • the operational imaging capability (e.g. steering capability to optimize the use of the swath and reduce the repeat cycle, or to implement stereoscopy).

 Sorting criteria and colour code:

  1. Hyperspectral radiometer with >=20 channels in VIS, NIR and SWIR.
  2. Hyperspectral radiometer with >=20 channels in VIS and NIR; OR multispectral radiometer with >=2 channels in VIS and >=1 channel(s) in NIR, SWIR and the TIR window ~ 11 μm.
  3. Hyperspectral radiometer with >=20 channels in NIR and SWIR; OR multispectral radiometer with >=2 channels in VIS and >=1 channel(s) in NIR and SWIR; OR >=2 channels in VIS and >=1 channel(s) in NIR and in the TIR window ~ 11 μm.
  4. Hyperspectral radiometer with >=20 channels in SWIR; OR multispectral radiometer with >=2 channels in VIS and >=1 channel(s) in NIR; OR >=1 channel(s) in (possibly) SWIR, in the MWIR window ~ 3.7 μm and the TIR window ~ 11 μm.
  5. Multispectral radiometer with >=1 channel(s) in NIR and SWIR; OR >=1 channel(s) in the TIR window ~ 11 μm; OR a panchromatic channel.