BackForwardInstrument:  WMC 

Instrument details
Acronym WMC
Full name Wide-swath Multispectral Camera
Purpose High-resolution land observation and disasters monitoring
Short description 4-channel VIS/NIR camera [see detailed characteristics below]
Background Consolidated technology
Scanning Technique Pushbroom, swath: 369 km
Resolution 16 m at s.s.p.
Coverage / Cycle Global in 7 days
Mass Power Data Rate

 

Providing Agency CAST
Instrument Maturity Flown on an R&D satellite
Utilization Period: 2013 to 2022
Last update: 2021-06-17
Detailed characteristics

Central wavelength

Spectral interval

SNR @ specified albedo

0.485 μm

0.45 - 0.52 μm

…… @ ….. % albedo

0.555 μm

0.52 - 0.59 μm

…… @ ….. % albedo

0.660 μm

0.63 - 0.69 μm

…… @ ….. % albedo

0.830 μm

0.77 - 0.89 μm

…… @ ….. % 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