GOCI

Geostationary Ocean Color Imager

Satellites

COMS 1 and 2

Status

Being integrated – To be utilised in the period 2009 to ~ 2021

Mission

Ocean colour and aerosol

Instrument type

8-channel VIS/NIR radiometer

Scanning technique

Pushbroom, 6000 pixel/line (3700 useful), swath 1420 km

Coverage/cycle

Area of 2500 km x 2500 km, hourly in daylight

Resolution (s.s.p.)

500 m IFOV

Resources

Mass: … kg - Power: … W - Data rate: … Mbps

Central wavelength

Bandwidth

Radiometric accuracy (SNR @ specified NEΔL)

412 nm

20 nm

1000 @ 100 mW m-2 sr-1 μm-1

443 nm

20 nm

1090 @ 86 mW m-2 sr-1 μm-1

490 nm

20 nm

1170 @ 67 mW m-2 sr-1 μm-1

555 nm

20 nm

1070 @ 56 mW m-2 sr-1 μm-1

660 nm

20 nm

1010 @ 32 mW m-2 sr-1 μm-1

680nm

10 nm

870 @ 31 mW m-2 sr-1 μm-1

745 nm

20 nm

860 @ 20 mW m-2 sr-1 μm-1

865 nm

40 nm

750 @ 16 mW m-2 sr-1 μm-1