Earth Observing System
The Earth Observing System ( EOS , English for ' Earth Observation System ') is a NASA research program that includes a number of artificial satellites with scientific instruments in Earth orbit . These earth observation satellites enable long-term explorations of the land surface, the biosphere , the atmosphere and the oceans . The program was started in 1997 and is part of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise project . The data are processed within the framework of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).
List of missions and their start dates
- Orbview-2 / SeaWiFS (private satellite with the sea-viewing wide field-of-view sensor ) - August 1, 1997
- TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) - November 27, 1997; Crashed April 15, 2015
- Landsat 7 - April 15, 1999
- QuikSCAT (Quick Scatterometer) - June 19, 1999
- Terra - December 18, 1999
- ACRIMSat (Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitors) - December 20, 1999
- NMP / EO-1 ( New Millennium Program / Earth Observing-1) - November 21, 2000
- Jason -1 - December 7, 2001
- METEOR 3M / Sage III (with Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment ) - December 10, 2001
- GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) - March 17, 2002
- Aqua - May 4, 2002
- ADEOS II / Midori II (Advanced Earth Observing Satellite) - December 12, 2002; Destroyed by solar storm in October 2003
- ICESat (Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite) - January 12, 2003; Crashed August 30, 2010
- SORCE (Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment) - January 25, 2003
- Aura - July 15, 2004
- CloudSat - April 28, 2006
- CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) - April 28, 2006
- Hydros - planned for June 2006, but funding ended December 2005
- OSTM (Jason – 2 Ocean Surface Topography Mission ) - June 20, 2008
- OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory) - February 24, 2009, failed
- Glory - March 4th 2011, failed
- Aquarius - 2010
- Suomi NPP ( National Polar-orbiting Partnership , initially NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project) - September 28, 2011
- GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement) - 2013
- LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission) - February 11, 2013
- NMP / EO-3 ( New Millennium Program / Earth Observing-3) - planned, currently no continuation of the project
See also
Commons : Program Earth Observing System - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Earth Explorer Missions for the relevant ESA program
- List of earth observation satellites
- Environmental satellite , weather satellite , satellite meteorology
Web links
- http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/ - Homepage of the Earth Observing System (English)
- http://www.earth.nasa.gov/ - Homepage of Earth Science Enterprise (English)
- Homepage NASA Earth Observatory (English)