Table 7.
General overview of airborne and satellite instrument characteristics in the optical range 400–2500 nm.
| Platform | Airborne | Spaceborne |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instrument | Aviris-Next Generation | Sentinel-2A/2B | PRISMA | DESIS |
| Acquisition height | Around 1.2 km and depending on spatial resolution | 786 km | 614 km | 400 km |
| Spatial resolution | 1.2–1.4 m 3.0–3.1 m |
10 m, 20 m and 60 m | 30 m | 30 m |
| Spectral characteristics | Range: 380–2510 nm Sampling: 5 nm Resolution: 5 nm Number of bands: 425 |
Range: 440–2200 nm Resolution: 15–185 nm Number of bands: 13 |
Range: 400–2505 nm Resolution: ≤ 12 nm Number of bands: 239 |
Range: 402–1000 nm Sampling: 2.55 nm Resolution: 3.5 nm Number of bands: 235 |