Gregor Halfmann
Email: <g.halfmann AT SPAMFREE web DOT de> oder <gregor.halfmann AT SPAMFREE zmaw DOT de>
ENVISAT
Environmental Satellite
launched in March 2002
ENVISAT instruments:
- ASAR (Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar): Imaging microwave radar
- MERIS: Imaging multi-spectral radiometer (vis/IR)
AATSR (Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer): Imaging multi-spectral radiometer (vis/IR) & Multiple direction/polarisation radiometers
- RA-2: radar altimeter
- MWR (Microwave Radiometer): Imaging multi-spectral radiometer (passive microwave)
- GOMOS: Atmospheric Chemistry (medium resolution spectrometer)
- MIPAS: (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding): Atmospheric Chemistry and Temperature (Fourier transform spectrometer)
- SCIAMACHI: Atmospheric Chemistry (imaging spectrometer)
- DORIS (Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite instrument): Precision Orbit (microwave tracking system)
- LRR (Laser Retro-Reflector): Passive optical instrument (support satellite ranging for precise orbit determination)