BackForwardInstrument:  AEISS-HR 

Instrument details
Acronym AEISS-HR
Full name Advanced Electronic Image Scanning System - High Resolution
Purpose High-resolution land and vegetation observation, DEM
Short description 5 channels: 4 multispectral, 1 panchromatic [see detailed characteristics below]
Background Improved after AEISS flown on KOMPSAT-3 (better resolution)
Scanning Technique Pushbroom - 12 km swath, pointable within a Field of Regard of +/- 45° on each side and fore- and aft-
Resolution 0.5 m PAN; 2 m MS
Coverage / Cycle Global in 6 months, or more frequently, down to 3 days, by strategic pointing
Mass 80 kg Power Data Rate 1 Gbps

 

Providing Agency KARI
Instrument Maturity Flown on an R&D satellite
Utilization Period: 2021 to 2029
Last update: 2021-06-15
Detailed characteristics
Central wavelength Spectral interval SNR @ specified input spectral radiance
485 nm 450 - 520 nm 100 @ 79.46 W cm-2 sr-1 µm-1
560 nm 520 - 600 nm 100 @ 89.92 W cm-2 sr-1 µm-1
660 nm 630 - 690 nm 100 @ 98.48 W cm-2 sr-1 µm-1
830 nm 760 - 900 nm 100 @ 104.15 W cm-2 sr-1 µm-1
N/A (PAN) 450 - 900 nm 100 @ 99.60 W cm-2 sr-1 µm-1
Satellites this instrument is flying on

Note: a red tag indicates satellites no longer operational, a green tag indicates operational satellites, a blue tag indicates future satellites

Instrument classification
  • Earth observation instrument
  • Passive optical radiometer or spectrometer
  • High resolution optical imager
WIGOS Subcomponents
  • Subcomponent 1
  • High-resolution multi-spectral VIS/IR imagers
  • High-resolution multi-spectral VIS/IR imager
Mission objectives
Primary mission objectives
  • Biomass
  • Fraction of Absorbed PAR (FAPAR)
  • Fraction of vegetated land
  • Land cover
  • Leaf Area Index (LAI)
  • Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
  • Vegetation type
Evaluation of Measurements