--- - description: 'Nimbus is a NASA meteorological research-and-development satellite program (parallel to the operational TIROS program) which started in 1963 with the prime objective to test new instrument concepts (introduction of sensor technology), a secondary objective was to provide atmospheric data for improved weather forecasts. Eventually, the series grew more into a major Earth sciences program (study of oceans, land surfaces and atmosphere) with the availability of better sensing instrumentation. The ERTS (Earth Resources Technology Satellite, later renamed to Landsat-1) program, developed in the early 1970s, is a direct descendent of the Nimbus program.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/n/nimbus-7 end_date: 1994-10-01T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/nimbus-7.yaml identifier: nimbus-7 name: NIMBUS-7 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1978-10-24T00:00:00 uri: /platform/nimbus-7 url: ~ - description: 'The Okean-O1 (Ocean-O1) is a spacecraft generation, built by the Yuzhnoye Design Office (Research and Production Association) of Dnepropetrosvk, Ukraine. The spacecraft is intended for an operational and all-weather monitoring service (optical, active and passive microwave regions), providing data on the ocean surface conditions and on natural resources for Russian institutions.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/o/okean-O1 end_date: 1996-01-01T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/ocean-01.yaml identifier: ocean-01 name: OCEAN-01 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1994-10-11T00:00:00 uri: /platform/ocean-01 url: ~ - description: 'Haiyang-1 is a Chinese minisatellite mission designed/developed by CAST (Chinese Academy of Space Technology) and sponsored by the State Ocean Administration (SOA), Beijing, China. This satellite was developed on a common minisatellite platform, namely CAST968, also employed by the SJ-5 satellite (Shi Jian-5, launch May 10, 1999). and monitoring the environment.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/h/hy-1a end_date: 2004-01-01T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/ocean-color-satellite-a.yaml identifier: ocean-color-satellite-a name: Ocean color satellite A platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2002-05-01T00:00:00 uri: /platform/ocean-color-satellite-a url: http://www.cast.cn/ - description: "HY-1B (also spelling of: Hai Yang-1B) is the second of China's ocean observation satellites with the overall objective to survey ocean resources (ocean color and sea surface temperature) and monitoring the environment. The spacecraft and its payload is practically a duplicate of the HY-1A mission which took place from May 15. 2002 to April 2004. - The design life of HY-1B improved from two years to three years. The HY program is being developed the by CASC (Chinese Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation) and sponsored by the State Ocean Administration (SOA), Beijing, China." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/h/hy-1b end_date: 2011-04-11T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/ocean-color-satellite-b.yaml identifier: ocean-color-satellite-b name: Ocean color satellite B platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2007-04-11T00:00:00 uri: /platform/ocean-color-satellite-b url: http://www.cast.cn/ - description: HY-2 is a second generation ocean observation/monitoring satellite series approved by CNSA (China National Space Administration) Beijing in Feb. 2007. The HY-2A mission represents a follow-up of the HY-1A and HY-1B missions. description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/h/hy-2a end_date: 2014-12-01T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/ocean-dynamics-satellite-a.yaml identifier: ocean-dynamics-satellite-a name: Ocean dynamics satellite A platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2011-08-16T00:00:00 uri: /platform/ocean-dynamics-satellite-a url: http://www.naoas.gov.cn/ - description: 'OceanSat-1 is a spacecraft developed at ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) within the IRS series referred to as IRS-P4. The objectives of the IRS-P4 mission are directed at ocean- and atmosphere-related applications; hence, prior to launch, ISRO renamed the spacecraft mission to.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/irs-p4 end_date: 2010-12-31T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/ocean-satellite-1.yaml identifier: ocean-satellite-1 name: Ocean Satellite-1 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1999-05-26T00:00:00 uri: /platform/ocean-satellite-1 url: http://www.isro.org/satellites/irs-p4_oceansat.aspx - description: 'The ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) spacecraft OceanSat-2 is envisaged to provide service continuity for the operational users of OCM (Ocean Color Monitor) data as well as to enhance the application potential in other areas. OCM is flown on IRS-P4/OceanSat-1, launched May 26, 1999. The main objectives of OceanSat-2 are to study surface winds and ocean surface strata, observation of chlorophyll concentrations, monitoring of phytoplankton blooms, study of atmospheric aerosols and suspended sediments in the water. OceanSat-2 will play an important role in forecasting the onset of the monsoon and its subsequent advancement over the Indian subcontinent and over South-East Asia. - The OceanSat-2 mission was approved by the Government of India on July 16, 2005.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/o/oceansat-2 end_date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/ocean-satellite-2.yaml identifier: ocean-satellite-2 name: Ocean Satellite-2 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2009-09-24T00:00:00 uri: /platform/ocean-satellite-2 url: http://www.isro.org/ - description: 'OceanSat-1 is a spacecraft developed at ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) within the IRS series referred to as IRS-P4. The objectives of the IRS-P4 mission are directed at ocean- and atmosphere-related applications; hence, prior to launch, ISRO renamed the spacecraft mission to.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/irs-p4 end_date: 2006-12-31T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/oceansat-1.yaml identifier: oceansat-1 name: OCEANSAT-1 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1999-05-26T00:00:00 uri: /platform/oceansat-1 url: http://www.isro.org/ - description: 'Odin is an international aeronomy and astronomy minisatellite mission led by Sweden, with Canada, France, and Finland as partners. The project is carried out and funded jointly by the space agencies of Sweden [SNSB (Swedish National Space Board)], Canada [CSA (Canadian Space Agency) and NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council)], Finland [TEKES (National Technology Agency of Finland)], and France (CNES). The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) is responsible for spacecraft system design and development. SSC provides also spacecraft operations (the operations center of SSC is located at Esrange; the latitude of 68º provides excellent visibility for polar orbiting satellites). - The Odin satellite is named after the god Odin - ruler of the Old Norse deities.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/o/odin end_date: 2015-12-01T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/odin.yaml identifier: odin name: Odin platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2001-02-20T00:00:00 uri: /platform/odin url: http://www.ohb-sweden.se/odin - description: 'The Okean-O1 (Ocean-O1) is a spacecraft generation, built by the Yuzhnoye Design Office (Research and Production Association) of Dnepropetrosvk, Ukraine. The spacecraft is intended for an operational and all-weather monitoring service (optical, active and passive microwave regions), providing data on the ocean surface conditions and on natural resources for Russian institutions.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/o/okean-O1 end_date: 2001-05-03T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/okean-01-n7.yaml identifier: okean-01-n7 name: OKEAN-01 N7 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1994-10-11T00:00:00 uri: /platform/okean-01-n7 url: http://sputnik1.infospace.ru/ - description: 'The Okean-O series, a joint Ukrainian/Russian remote sensing program, represents a new generation spacecraft over the Okean-O1 series with regard to the sensor complement (the S/C is also considerably larger). The Okean-O-1 spacecraft/mission was sponsored by NKAU (National Space Agency of Ukraine) and to some extent by RKA (Russian Space Agency), designed by the Yangel Yuzhnoye State Design Office, and built by NPO Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant Production Association (Yuzhmash), Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. All the scientific assets of the spacecraft, scientific data downloaded from each instrument are mutually divided between Russia and Ukraine on an equal basis.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/o/okean-O end_date: 2002-01-31T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/okean-o.yaml identifier: okean-o name: OKEAN-O platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1999-07-17T00:00:00 uri: /platform/okean-o url: http://sputnik1.infospace.ru/ - description: 'TopSat is a UK (United Kingdom) collaborative low-cost satellite mission of QinetiQ (formerly DERA), SSTL (Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.), RAL (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), and Infoterra, funded by the UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) and by the BNSC (British National Space Centre) small satellite initiative (Mosaic). The overall objectives are to demonstrate the capabilities of small spacecraft on a high-resolution imaging mission, including an end-to-end ground segment with services for a commercial user community (direct user access, innovative solutions).' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/t/topsat end_date: 2010-12-31T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/optical-imaging-satellite.yaml identifier: optical-imaging-satellite name: Optical Imaging Satellite platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2005-10-27T00:00:00 uri: /platform/optical-imaging-satellite url: http://www.bnsc.gov.uk/content.aspx?nid=5907 - description: "OCO is a NASA sponsored minisatellite mission selected in July 2002 within the ESSP (Earth System Science Pathfinder) program. The OCO science objective is to provide global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO ) needed to describe the geographic distribution and variability of carbon dioxide sources and sinks. CO measurements are essential to resolving significant discrepancies in our understanding of the global carbon budget and, hence, humankind's role in global climate change." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/o/oco end_date: 2009-02-24T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/orbiting-carbon-observatory.yaml identifier: orbiting-carbon-observatory name: Orbiting Carbon Observatory platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2009-02-24T00:00:00 uri: /platform/orbiting-carbon-observatory url: http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/ - description: "OCO-2 is a NASA mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in the Earth's climate. OCO-2 will provide a complete picture of human and natural carbon dioxide sources and \"sinks,\" the places where the gas is pulled out of the atmosphere and stored. The aim is to map the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their changes over time." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/o/oco-2 end_date: 2017-10-01T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/orbiting-carbon-observatory-2.yaml identifier: orbiting-carbon-observatory-2 name: Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2014-07-02T00:00:00 uri: /platform/orbiting-carbon-observatory-2 url: http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/ - description: 'Picard is a CNES solar-terrestrial microsatellite mission of the Myriade series with French multi-institutional and international cooperation. The overall objective is to monitor the solar diameter, the differential rotation, the solar constant (simultaneous measurement of the absolute total and spectral solar irradiance), and to study the long-term nature of their interrelations.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/p/picard end_date: 2014-04-04T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/picard.yaml identifier: picard name: PICARD platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2010-06-15T00:00:00 uri: /platform/picard url: http://smsc.cnes.fr/PICARD/ - description: 'Pleiades-HR is a two-spacecraft constellation of CNES (Space Agency of France), representing a long-term engagement with the introduction of advanced technologies in Earth observation capabilities. Starting with the first launch in 2009, the Pleiades program will follow the SPOT program satellite series services, with the following overall objectives:' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/p/pleiades end_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/pleiades-1a.yaml identifier: pleiades-1a name: Pleiades 1A platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2011-12-17T00:00:00 uri: /platform/pleiades-1a url: http://smsc.cnes.fr/PLEIADES/Fr/index.htm - description: 'Pleiades-HR is a two-spacecraft constellation of CNES (Space Agency of France), representing a long-term engagement with the introduction of advanced technologies in Earth observation capabilities. Starting with the first launch in 2009, the Pleiades program will follow the SPOT program satellite series services, with the following overall objectives:' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/p/pleiades end_date: 2017-12-01T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/pleiades-1b.yaml identifier: pleiades-1b name: Pleiades 1B platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2012-12-02T00:00:00 uri: /platform/pleiades-1b url: http://smsc.cnes.fr/PLEIADES/Fr/index.htm - description: "PARASOL (Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Science coupled with Observations from a Lidar) is a French (CNES) science mission of the Myriade series, put forward by CNRS/LOA [Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique at USTL (Lille University of Science and Technology), Lille, France)], with the general objective to study the Earth's atmosphere. Of particular interest in this study is (fine particles in suspension in the air) (which effect has global warming on cloud cover? How do clouds and aerosols interact?)." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/p/parasol end_date: 2013-10-11T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/polarization-and-anisotropy-of-reflectances-for-atmospheric-science-coupled-with-observations-from-a-lidar.yaml identifier: polarization-and-anisotropy-of-reflectances-for-atmospheric-science-coupled-with-observations-from-a-lidar name: Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Science coupled with Observations from a LIDAR platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2004-12-18T00:00:00 uri: /platform/polarization-and-anisotropy-of-reflectances-for-atmospheric-science-coupled-with-observations-from-a-lidar url: http://smsc.cnes.fr/PARASOL/index.htm - description: "Priroda (“nature”) is a multisensor research module (orbital complex) for Russia's orbital Mir station (“peace”) dedicated to the observation of the environment. Major partners/organizations involved: Roskosmos (Russian Space Agency), RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences), RSC (Rocket Space Corporation) Energia, S.. P. Korolev, Moscow region - the prime contractor and developer of the Mir Station and its modules; RNII KP (Russian Institute of Space Device Engineering), IRE-RAS (Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics), NPO Planeta, etc." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/p/priroda end_date: 1999-01-01T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/priroda.yaml identifier: priroda name: PRIRODA platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1996-01-01T00:00:00 uri: /platform/priroda url: ~ - description: ~ description_attribution: ~ end_date: 2016-05-01T00:00:00 href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/proba-v.yaml identifier: proba-v name: PROBA-V platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2013-05-07T00:00:00 uri: /platform/proba-v url: esa.int/proba_missions