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ASTER Satellite Sensor (15m)
ASTER satellite sensor is one of the five state-of-the-art instrument sensor systems on-board Terra a satellite launched on December 18, 1999 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA.
ASTER Satellite Sensor (15m)
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ASTER is a 15 meter, 14 band multispectral resolution instrument. It can be used for change detection, calibration, validation, and land surface studies.
ASTER satellite image data is expected to contribute to a wide array of global change-related application areas, including vegetation and ecosystem dynamics, hazard monitoring, geology and soils, land surface climatology, hydrology, land cover change, and the generation of digital elevation models (DEMs).
ASTER high-resolution satellite capable of producing stereo imagery for creating detailed digital terrain models (DTMs).
Sample Images
Mineral Mapping Escondida Mine |
Dagze Lake Tibet |
Mexical US-Mexico Border |
ASTER Satellite Image Gallery
ASTER Satellite Sensor Specifications
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The ASTER instrument consists of three separate instrument subsystems:
VNIR (Visible Near Infrared), a backward looking telescope which is only used to acquire a stereo pair image
SWIR (ShortWave Infrared), a single fixed aspheric refracting telescope
TIR(Thermal Infrared)
ASTER has 14 bands of information. For more information, please see the following table:
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ASTER Specifications - PDF Download
Satellites Currently Operated by NASA
- WorldView-4 (0.31m)
- WorldView-3 (0.31m)
- WorldView-2 (0.46m)
- WorldView-1 (0.46m)
- GeoEye-1 (0.46m)
- Pleiades-1A (0.5m)
- Pleiades-1B (0.5m)
- SuperView-1 (0.5m)
- KOMPSAT-3A (0.55m)
- KOMPSAT-3 (0.7m)
- QuickBird (0.65m)
- Gaofen-2 (0.8m)
- TripleSat (0.8m)
- IKONOS (0.82m)
- SkySat-1 (0.8m)
- SkySat-2 (0.8m)
- Jilin-1 (1m)
- TerraSAR-X
- SPOT-6 (1.5m)
- SPOT-7 (1.5m)
- Other Satellites (2m-20m)
