GOES vs POES (Geostationary and Polar Operational Environmental Satellites)
GOES and POES are both operational environmental satellites. But they actually share more in common such as their 40+ year legacy in space.
Remote Sensing
Worldview Satellite by DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe’s cutting-edge high resolution Worldview satellite carves out ridiculously crisp imagery at 31 cm in 8 spectral bands.
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MODIS: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [Satellite]
Despite popular belief MODIS is a satellite, it’s actually an instrument on-board a satellite. It has 36 bands, 250-1000 meter resolution and 2-day revisits.
50 Satellites in Space: Types and Uses of Satellites
A list of the 50 most iconic satellites put up into space to monitor our planet. We show the uses and types of satellites like weather and GPS satellites.
Landsat 8 Bands and Band Combinations
We list Landsat 8 bands as well as popular band combinations which includes coastal, blue, green, red, NIR, SWIR-1, SWIR-2, cirrus and two thermal bands.
Sentinel 2 Bands and Combinations
Sentinel 2 has a total of 13 bands. Each band is 10, 20 or 60 meters in pixel size. This includes red, green, blue, near infrared and short infrared bands.
AVHRR: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) spatial resolution is actually very coarse at 1.1 km. But its revisit times are “very high” at just one day.
Sentinel Satellites of the Copernicus Programme
Copernicus is the world’s largest and most ambitious Earth observation program in existence today with its Sentinel satellites taking center stage.
Remote Sensing of the Environment: Local and Global Environmental Issues
As our population grows and climate is at risk, remote sensing of the environment solves large-scale environmental issues for the land, ocean and atmosphere.
DigitalGlobe Satellite Imagery: Worldview, GeoEye and IKONOS
If you want the sharpest satellite imagery in the world, harness the power of DigitalGlobe imagery. Each pixel in a Worldview-3 image is about 31 cm.