The project is currently (summer 2012) in its Phase D, with a Final Acceptance Review planned for December 2012. The system CDR (Critical Design Review) took place in the spring of 2011. Furthermore, advancements in the techniques of detectors, optics fabrication and metrology are considered sufficiently mature to permit the design of a compact multispectral optical instrument. The PROBA-V (Vegetation) mission definition is an attempt, spearheaded by ESA and CNES, to accommodate an improved smaller version of the large VGT (Vegetation) optical instrument of SPOT-4 and SPOT-5 mission heritage on a small satellite bus, such as the one of PROBA-2.Īs of 2008, small satellite technologies have reached a level of maturity and reliability to be used as a platform for an operational Earth observation mission.
Spacecraft Launch Mission Status Sensor Complement Payloads Ground Segment References PROBA-V (Project for On-Board Autonomy - Vegetation) Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI), Fraction of Absorbed PAR (FAPAR), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Earth surface albedo, Vegetation type, Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR), Ocean imagery and water leaving spectral radiance, Land cover, Land surface imagery Multi-purpose imagery (ocean), Vegetation, Albedo and reflectance, Multi-purpose imagery (land)
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