BackForwardInstrument:  MSI (Sansa) 

Instrument details
Acronym MSI (Sansa)
Full name Multi-Spectral Imager
Purpose High-resolution land observation, disasters monitoring
Short description 6-channel VNIR radiometer [see detailed characteristics below]
Background Consolidated technology
Scanning Technique Pushbroom. Swath 45 km addressable within a field of regard of 530 km
Resolution 6.5 m
Coverage / Cycle Global coverage in 2 months. Minimum revisit time for a specific area: 5 days
Mass Power Data Rate

 

Providing Agency SANSA
Instrument Maturity Flown on an R&D satellite
Utilization Period: 2009 to 2011
Last update: 2020-01-07
Detailed characteristics
Central wavelength Spectral interval SNR @ specified albedo
475 nm 440 - 510 nm ….. @ ….. % albedo
530 nm 520 - 540 nm ….. @ ….. % albedo
555 nm 520 - 590 nm ….. @ ….. % albedo
658 nm 630 - 685 nm ….. @ ….. % albedo
710 nm 690 - 730 nm ….. @ ….. % albedo
867 nm 845 - 890 nm ….. @ ….. % albedo
Satellites this instrument is flying on

Note: a red tag indicates satellites no longer operational, a green tag indicates operational satellites, a blue tag indicates future satellites

Instrument classification
  • Earth observation instrument
  • Passive optical radiometer or spectrometer
  • High resolution optical imager
WIGOS Subcomponents
  • Subcomponent 1
  • High-resolution multi-spectral VIS/IR imagers
  • High-resolution multi-spectral VIS/IR imager
Mission objectives
Primary mission objectives
  • Biomass
  • Fraction of Absorbed PAR (FAPAR)
  • Fraction of vegetated land
  • Land cover
  • Leaf Area Index (LAI)
  • Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
  • Vegetation type
Evaluation of Measurements