Satellite Archives - GIS Geography

Worldview Satellite by DigitalGlobe

DigitalGlobe’s cutting-edge high resolution Worldview satellite carves out ridiculously crisp imagery at 31 cm in 8 spectral bands.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 copernicus programme

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.

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.

IKONOS Satellite Imagery: First Commercial Space-based Imaging

IKONOS provides panchromatic, natural-color, color-infrared and stereo images for cartographic, remote sensing and photogrammetric applications.

SRTM Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

During an 11-day mission, Space Shuttle Radar Topography (SRTM) mission captured Earth’s elevation at 1 arc-second (30 meters) for over 80% of the Earth.