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Supported Missions

The ESA Charter Mapper supports a broad range of radar and optical satellite remote sensing imagery products of 41 EO missions from 24 space agencies and data distributors.

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The table below lists the EO Missions supported by the ESA Charter Mapper.

Charter Owner Agency Satellite Instruments Modes Product Sensor type
ABAE VRSS-1 PMC, WMC PA, VIS L2B Optical
ABAE VRSS-2 HRC L1A Optical
BlackSky Global 1, 2, ..., 60 (*) SpaceView 24 PAN+MS ORTHO Optical
CNES Pléiades NEO PNEO PAN, MS, MS-FS, PMS, PMS-N, PNS-X, PMS-FS ORTHO Optical
CNES Pléiades 1A, 1B PHR 1A/1B PAN, MS, PMS, PMS-N, PMS-X ORTHO Optical
CNES SPOT-6, SPOT-7 SPT PA, XS, PMS ORTHO Optical
CNSA Gaofen-1 PMS PMS, MS L1G Optical
CNSA Gaofen-2 PMS PMS L1A Optical
CNSA Gaofen-3 SARC FSI, FSII L2A Radar
CNSA Gaofen-4 PMI L1A Optical
CONAE Saocom 1A, 1B SAR-SAO 1A/1B SMDP, SMQP, TNDP, TNQP, TWDP, TWQP SLC, GEC, GTC Radar
CONIDA Perusat-1 NAOMI P, MS, PMS ORT Optical
CSA RCM 1,2,3 SAR_RCM LSC100M, SC50M, SC30M, SCLN, 16M, 5M, 3M, FSL, QP GRD Radar
DLR TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X X-SAR HS, SL, SM, SC, ST-SP, WSC GEC, EEC Radar
DMCII UK-DMC-2 SLIM-6-22 L1T Optical
DMCII ALSAT-1B ALITE L1T Optical
DMCII Vision-1 S1 L1T Optical
ESA Sentinel 1A, 1B C-SAR EW, IW GRD Radar
ESA Sentinel 2A, 2B MSI L1C, L2A Optical
ICEYE ICEYE X2, X4, X5, X7 ICEYE-X-SAR SLH, SM GRD Radar
INPE Amazonia-1 WFI WFI L2, L4 Optical
INPE CBERS-4 PanMux, MUXCam, AWFI PAN5M, PAN10M, MUX, AWFI L2, L4 Optical
INPE CBERS-4A WPM, MUX, WFI WPM, MUX, WFI L2, L4 Optical
ISRO Cartosat-2 PAN_CARTOSAT2 PAINT-BRUSH L1C Optical
ISRO Resourcesat-2 LISS-III L1C Optical
ISRO Resourcesat-2 LISS-IV L1C Optical
ISRO Resourcesat-2A LISS-III L1C Optical
JAXA ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 SM L1.5G Radar
KARI KOMPSAT-3 AEISS PMS L1G Optical
KARI KOMPSAT-3A AEISS-A PMS L1G Optical
KARI KOMPSAT-5 COSI UH, HR, EHR, ST, EST L1D Radar
NAS BKA PSS, MSS PAN, MUL L1B, L1C Optical
PLANET PlanetScope (**) PS2, PS2.SD L1B Optical
PLANET PlanetScope (**) PSB.SD L1B Optical
ROSCOSMOS Kanopus-V MSS-PSS L1D Optical
ROSCOSMOS Kanopus-V-IK MSS-PSS L1D Optical
SATELLOGIC NewSat 1, 2, ...,30 (***) MS L1/L3 Optical
USGS GeoEye-1 EO-IMAGER L1B Optical
USGS Landsat-8, Landsat-9 OLI, TIRS L1GT Optical
USGS Worldview-1 EO-IMAGER L1B Optical
USGS Worldview-2 EO-IMAGER L1B Optical
USGS Worldview-3 EO-IMAGER L1B Optical

Note

(*) As per press release of April 20221 the BlackSky constellation is expanding to 14 satellites. Planned full constellation is of 60 microsatellites.

(**) As of November 2022, the PlanetScope constellation operated by Planet consists of approximately 130 DOVE cubesats2.

(***) As of January 2023, Satellogic's Aleph-1 constellation consists of 30 operational NewSat (or ÑuSat) microsatellites3.

  1. BlackSky Global, "BlackSky Expands Constellation to 14 Satellites and Increases Capacity Over Critical Locations", 4 Apr 2022. Accessed Jan 2023 at https://www.blacksky.com/. ↩

  2. Planet, "PlanetScope Constellation and sensor overview", 8 Nov 2022. Accessed Jan 2023 at: https://developers.planet.com. ↩

  3. Satellogic, "Low Earth Orbit: The best vantage point to monitor the Earth". Accessed Jan 2023 at https://satellogic.com. ↩