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Table 1 Satellites organized by management type, beginning with higher spatial resolution pixels

From: Current and near-term advances in Earth observation for ecological applications

Spatial Resolution

Panchromatic

Multispectral

Fluorescence

Hyperspectral

Multiband TIR

LiDAR

RaDAR

GEO- Stationary

High Spatial Resolution

Landsat 7-9

VENμS

 

CHRIS PROBA

ASTER

GEDI

S-1

 

PRISMA

S-2

 

EO-1 Hyperion

Landsat 8, 9

Icesat-2

  
 

Landsat 4-7

 

PRISMA

ECOSTRESS

   
 

EO-1 OLI

 

DESIS

S-8 LSTM

   
 

ASTER

 

EnMAP

    
 

Landsat 8, 9

 

HiSUI

    
   

EMIT

    
   

SBG

    
   

S-10 CHIME

    

Moderate Spatial Resolution

VIIRS

ENVISat

FLEX FLORIS

 

ENVISat

 

Sentinel 1

GeoCARB

 

MODIS

OCO3

 

MODIS

 

Biomass

 
 

VIIRS

GeoCARB

 

VIIRS

 

NISAR

 
 

S-3 OLCI, SLSTR

  

S-3 OLCI, SLSTR

   
    

WildfireSat

   
    

S- 5P TROPOMI

   

Coarse Spatial Resolution

 

AVHRR-3

  

AVHRR-3

  

S-4 UVVN, IRS

 

METImage, 3MI

  

METImage, 3MI

  

S-5 UCNS

 

NOAA-20 Series

  

NOAA-20 Series

  

S-6

    

Sentinel-7

  

GOES 16 series ABI

       

Himawari 8 AHI

       

METEOSat MTG