There are many Earth observation satellite-based sensors, both active and passive, currently in orbit or planned for the near future. Representative of these, we describe briefly the multispectral ASTER system (Abrams et al., 1999) and the TerraSAR-X synthetic aperture radar satellite (Pitz and Miller, 2010). See Jensen (2018), Richards (2012) and Mather and Koch (2010) for overviews of remote sensing satellite platforms.
The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflectance Radiometer (ASTER) instrument was launched in December 1999 on the Terra spacecraft. It is being used to obtain detailed maps of land surface temperature, reflectance and elevation and consists of sensors to measure reflected solar radiance ...
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