Environmental Satellite

European Space Agency
March, 2002 to April, 2012

EnviSat is an Earth observation mission of ESA (European Space Agency). The overall objectives are: studying and monitoring the Earth's environment on various scales, from local through regional to global. Monitoring and management of the Earth's resources, both renewable and nonrenewable. Continuation and improvement of the services provided to the worldwide operational meteorological community. Contribution to the understanding of the structure and dynamics of the Earth's crust and interior. Major disciplines covered: meteorology, climatology, environment, atmospheric chemistry, vegetation, hydrology, land use, ocean and ice processes.

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http://envisat.esa.int/

Instrument	Datasets
Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer	12
Advanced Synthetic-Aperture Radar	6
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (Image mode)	0
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (Wave mode)	0
Communications package on ENVISAT	0
Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars	0
Medium-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer	0
Michelson Interferometric Passive Atmosphere Sounder	0
Microwave Radiometer	0
Radar Altimeter - 2	3
Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography	0
Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite-NG	0

Also known as :

• missionID 2 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission Envisat (ceos lexicon)
• resource Envisat (dbpedia lexicon)
• Source ENVISAT (nsidc lexicon)
• Platform ENVISAT (podaac lexicon)