EOS and Associated International Satellites and Mission Objectives | |
|---|---|
SATELLITES (Launch Status) | MISSION OBJECTIVES |
| EOS AM Series (1998) Earth Observing System Morning Crossing (Descending) | Clouds, aerosols, and radiation balance; characterization of terrestrial ecosystems; land use, soils, terrestrial energy/moisture, tropospheric chemical composition; contribution of volcanoes to climate, and ocean primary productivity (includes Canadian and Japanese instruments) |
| Landsat -7 (1998) Land Remote-Sensing Satellite | High -spatial-resolution visible and infrared radiance/reflectance to monitor land surface |
| EOS Color (1998) EOS Ocean Color Mission | Ocean primary productivity (under review) |
| ENVISAT Series (ESA - 1998) Environmental Satellite | Environmental studies in atmospheric chemistry and marine biology. |
| ADEOS II (Japan - 1999) Advanced Earth Observing Satellite II | Visible-to -thermal infrared radiance and reflectance, microwave imaging, scatterometry, ozone, aerosols, atmospheric temperature, winds, water vapor, sea surface temperature, energy budget, clouds, snow and ice, ocean current, ocean color/biology (includes French and U.S. instruments). |
| EOS Radar ALT Series (joint with France) (1999) EOS Ocean Altimetry Mission | Ocean circulation |
| EOS PM Series (2000) Earth Observing System Afternoon Crossing (Ascending) | Clouds, precipitation, and radiative balance; characterization of terrestrial processes; air- sea fluxes of energy and moisture; and sea-ice extent (includes European instruments) |
| ATMOS Series (Japan and NASA - Proposed for 2000) Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission | Precipitation and related variables and Earth radiation budget in the tropics and higher latitudes; also trace gases |
| METOP Series (EUMETSAT/ESA-2000) Meteorological Operational Satellite | Operational meteorology and climate monitoring, with the future objective of operational climatology |
| ALOS (Japan-2001) Advanced Land Observation Satellite | Land surface, cartography, and disaster monitoring |
| EOS CHEM Series (2002) EOS Chemistry Mission | Atmospheric chemical composition; troposphere- stratosphere exchange of energy and chemicals; chemistry-climate interactions; air-sea exchange of chemicals and energy (includes an ozone-measuring Japanese instrument) |
| EOS Laser ALT Series (2003) EOS Ice-Sheet Altimetry Mission | Ice sheet mass, balance and cloud top and land- surface topography |