{"id":242431,"date":"2016-07-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b8e6ec7a9a3fcd42de65b1fc899c4405"},"modified":"2016-07-29T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:00:00","slug":"sentinel-3-scans-earths-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242431","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-3 scans Earth\u2019s colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/07\/sentinel-3_scans_earth_s_colour\/16083831-3-eng-GB\/Sentinel-3_scans_Earth_s_colour_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-3\u2019s Ocean and Land Colour Instrument&nbsp; (OLCI) is based on heritage from Envisat\u2019s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and features 21 distinct bands in the 0.4\u20131.02 \u00ecm spectral region (or 400\u20131020 nm) tuned to specific ocean colour, vegetation and atmospheric correction measurement requirements. It has a spatial resolution of 300 m for all measurements and a swath width of 1270 km, overlapping the SLSTR swath. OLCI\u2019s new eyes on Earth allow ocean ecosystems to be monitored, support crop management and agriculture and provide estimates of atmospheric aerosol and clouds \u2013 all of which bring significant societal benefits through more informed decision-making.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe animation illustrates the instrument\u2019s push-broom scanning principle. The colours represent the different spectral bands, which are acquired by five cameras covering the instrument\u2019s broad swath. Each camera measures a portion of the swath at a nadir spatial resolution of 300 m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/07\/sentinel-3_scans_earth_s_colour\/16083831-3-eng-GB\/Sentinel-3_scans_Earth_s_colour_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-3&rsquo;s Ocean and Land Colour Instrument&nbsp; (OLCI) is based on heritage from Envisat&rsquo;s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and features 21 distinct bands in the 0.4&ndash;1.02 &igrave;m spectral region (or 400&ndash;1020 nm) tuned to specific ocean colour, vegetation and atmospheric correction measurement requirements. It has a spatial resolution of 300 m for all measurements and a swath width of 1270 km, overlapping the SLSTR swath. OLCI&rsquo;s new eyes on Earth allow ocean ecosystems to be monitored, support crop management and agriculture and provide estimates of atmospheric aerosol and clouds &ndash; all of which bring significant societal benefits through more informed decision-making.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe animation illustrates the instrument&rsquo;s push-broom scanning principle. The colours represent the different spectral bands, which are acquired by five cameras covering the instrument&rsquo;s broad swath. Each camera measures a portion of the swath at a nadir spatial resolution of 300 m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242432,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242431\/revisions\/242432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}