MMRS

Multispectral Medium Resolution Scanner

Satellites

SAC-C

Status

Operational – Utilised in the period 2000 to ~ 2010

Mission

Land and vegetation observation

Instrument type

5-channels VIS/NIR radiometer

Scanning technique

Pushbroom; swath 360 km

Coverage/cycle

Global coverage in one week, in daylight.

Resolution (s.s.p.)

175 m IFOV

Resources

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

Central wavelength

Spectral interval

Radiometric accuracy (SNR)

490 nm

480 - 500 nm

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550 nm

540 - 560 nm

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660 nm

630 - 690 nm

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815 nm

795 - 835 nm

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1625 nm

1550 - 1700 nm

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