---
aliases:
  - context: missionID
    lexicon: ceos
    term: 2
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionsummary.aspx?missionID=2
  - context: Mission
    lexicon: ceos
    term: Envisat
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionindex.aspx#E
  - context: resource
    lexicon: dbpedia
    term: Envisat
    url: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Envisat
  - context: Source
    lexicon: nsidc
    term: ENVISAT
    url: ~
  - context: Platform
    lexicon: podaac
    term: ENVISAT
    url: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/datasetlist?ids=Platform&values=ENVISAT
cited_by: []
contributors:
  - display_name: 'Contributor : European Space Agency '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/3736.yaml
    id: 3736
    organization:
      country_code: ~
      display_name: European Space Agency
      identifier: european-space-agency
      name: European Space Agency
      organization_type_identifier: intergovernmental
      type: organization
      url: http://www.esa.int/
    organization_uri: /organization/european-space-agency
    person: {}
    person_id: ~
    person_uri: ~
    role_type_identifier: contributor
    uri: /contributor/3736
description: "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."
description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/e/envisat
display_name: environmental-satellite
end_date: 2012-04-08T00:00:00
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href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/environmental-satellite.yaml
identifier: environmental-satellite
instruments:
  - description: Multi-channel/direction/polarisation radiometer
    description_attribution: Multi-channel/direction/polarisation radiometer
    identifier: advanced-along-track-scanning-radiometer
    name: Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
    uri: /instrument/advanced-along-track-scanning-radiometer
  - description: Imaging radar (SAR)
    description_attribution: Imaging radar (SAR)
    identifier: advanced-synthetic-aperture-radar
    name: Advanced Synthetic-Aperture Radar
    uri: /instrument/advanced-synthetic-aperture-radar
  - description: Imaging radar (SAR)
    description_attribution: Imaging radar (SAR)
    identifier: advanced-synthetic-aperture-radar-image-mode
    name: Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (Image mode)
    uri: /instrument/advanced-synthetic-aperture-radar-image-mode
  - description: Imaging radar (SAR)
    description_attribution: Imaging radar (SAR)
    identifier: advanced-synthetic-aperture-radar-wave-mode
    name: Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (Wave mode)
    uri: /instrument/advanced-synthetic-aperture-radar-wave-mode
  - description: ~
    description_attribution: ~
    identifier: communications-package-on-envisat
    name: Communications package on ENVISAT
    uri: /instrument/communications-package-on-envisat
  - description: Limb-scanning SW spectrometer
    description_attribution: Limb-scanning SW spectrometer
    identifier: global-ozone-monitoring-by-occultation-of-stars
    name: Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
    uri: /instrument/global-ozone-monitoring-by-occultation-of-stars
  - description: Medium-resolution spectro-radiometer
    description_attribution: Medium-resolution spectro-radiometer
    identifier: medium-resolution-imaging-spectrometer
    name: Medium-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
    uri: /instrument/medium-resolution-imaging-spectrometer
  - description: Limb-scanning IR spectrometer
    description_attribution: Limb-scanning IR spectrometer
    identifier: michelson-interferometric-passive-atmosphere-sounder
    name: Michelson Interferometric Passive Atmosphere Sounder
    uri: /instrument/michelson-interferometric-passive-atmosphere-sounder
  - description: Non-scanning MW radiometer
    description_attribution: Non-scanning MW radiometer
    identifier: microwave-radiometer
    name: Microwave Radiometer
    uri: /instrument/microwave-radiometer
  - description: Radar altimeter
    description_attribution: Radar altimeter
    identifier: radar-altimeter-2-2
    name: 'Radar Altimeter - 2'
    uri: /instrument/radar-altimeter-2-2
  - description: High-resolution nadir-scanning SW spectrometer
    description_attribution: High-resolution nadir-scanning SW spectrometer
    identifier: scanning-imaging-absorption-spectrometer-for-atmospheric-chartography
    name: Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography
    uri: /instrument/scanning-imaging-absorption-spectrometer-for-atmospheric-chartography
  - description: Radio-positioning system
    description_attribution: Radio-positioning system
    identifier: doris-ng
    name: Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite-NG
    uri: /instrument/doris-ng
name: Environmental Satellite
parents: []
platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
references: []
start_date: 2002-03-01T00:00:00
type: platform
uri: /platform/environmental-satellite
url: http://envisat.esa.int/