Table 6. EOS ASTER Sensor
Satellite
705 km Altitude
Sun Synchronous Orbit (98.2°)
10:30 am Descending Node
Ground Track Repeat Interval 16 Days
Sensor
ASTER - Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and
Reflection Radiometer
14 Bands (3 VNIR at 15 m, 6 SWIR at 30 m,
5 TIR at 90 km)
Along-Track Stereo (Aft and Nadir)
Share of Solid State On-Board Storage of 140 Gb
Revisit Time (with cross-track tilt) of 2 Days
Data
Primary Data Return via TDRSS
S. CONCLUSION
U.S. government remote sensing satellite programs including
NOAA, Landsat-7 and EOS are designed to acquire image data
suitable for land resource mapping applications. These
programs are long-term commitments to global monitoring
with an emphasis on continuity with existing satellite
programs. Over the next five years the increase in data
acquisition will be accompanied by advances in image
processing and mapping applications, particularly in the
integration of remote sensing and GIS for modeling global
change.
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