SATELLITE – BASED AIR QUALITY OBSERVING SYSTEMS1 Lead Orbit & Location of Satellite Instrument Federal Initiated Measurement Parameters Horizontal Information Platform3 Agency Resolution and/or Data

GOES Imager Fire products for WF_ABBA GOES-10 http://www.nesdis.n (Geostationary Operational NOAA 1994 (imagery) and GASP (aerosol Geostationary GOES-12 oaa.gov/ Environmental Satellites) optical depth)

GOES Sounder http://cimss.ssec.wi GOES-10 (Geostationary Operational NOAA 1994 Total column O3 Geostationary sc.edu/goes/goesm GOES-12 Environmental Satellites) ain.html#sndrinfo

SBUV/2 http://www2.ncdc.n Total and profile O3 from surface (Solar Backscattered NOAA-16 oaa.gov/docs/podu NOAA 2000 to top of atmosphere in ~5 km thick Polar Ultraviolet Radiomenter Model NOAA-172 g/html/c4/sec4- Umkehr layers 2) 4.htm Aerosol optical depth, particle size AVHRR NOAA-15 http://noaasis.noaa. information and Polar (Advanced Very High NOAA-16 NOAA 1998 gov/NOAASIS/ml/a vegetation/drought index products 4km Resolution Radiometer) NOAA-172 vhrr.html related to air qulaity through fires http://www.af.mil/fa OLS DMSP Polar DOD 1962? Identify fires and smoke plumes ctsheets/factsheet. (Operational Linescan System) satellites Imagery only asp?fsID=94 TOMS Nimbus 7 http://toms.gsfc.nas 1978 1991 Polar (Total Ozone Mpaaing Meteor 3 NASA Total O3, aerosol index a.gov/fltmodel/spac 1996 ~100km Spectrometer) Earth Probe ecr.html

MODIS Aerosol optical depth, particle size http://modarch.gsfc EOS Terra 1999 Polar (Moderate Resolution Imaging NASA information, fine particle fraction, .nasa.gov/index.ph EOS Aqua 2002 1km Spectroradiometer) and forest fires p Total column ozone, surface temperature, temperature and http://www- AIRS moisture vertical profiles, (plus Polar airs.jpl.nasa.gov/fe EOS Aqua NASA 2002 Atmospheric Infrared Sounder under development are CO and 50km atures/climate_cha CO2 total column, O3 vertical nge/intro.html distribution, and CH4 distribution) MOPITT Polar http://www.eos.uca (Measurement of Pollution in EOS Terra NASA 1999 CO, CH4 22 x 22 km2 r.edu/mopitt/ the Troposphere) MISR Aerosol properties and plume Polar http://eos.gsfc.nasa (Multi-angle Imaging EOS Terra NASA 1999 height information near the vicinity ~1km .gov/projects.html SpectroRadiomenter) of fires

OMI Tropospheric columns for O3, SO2, Polar http://eos.gsfc.nasa EOS Aura NASA 2004 (Ozone Monitoring Instrument) HCHO, NO2 and aerosol 12 x 24 km2 .gov/projects.html TES Tropospheric columns for O3, Polar http://eos.gsfc.nasa EOS Aura NASA 2004 (Total Emission Spectrometer) NOy, CO, SO2, CH4 26 x 42 km2 .gov/projects.html CALIPSO http://www- (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar & Aerosol optical depth, backscatter, Polar CALIPSO NASA 2005 calipso.larc.nasa.g Infrared Pathfinder Satellite extinction 0.3 x 0.3 km2 ov/about/ Observations) OMPS NPOESS - http://www.ipo.noa total column and vertical profile (Ozone Mapping and Profiling Preparatory NOAA 2006 Polar a.gov/Projects/npp. ozone data, Suite) Project html VIIRS NPOESS - http://www.ipo.noa (Visible Infrared Imaging Preparatory NOAA 2006 Aerosol optical depth Polar a.gov/Projects/npp. Radiometer Suite) Project html http://oco.jpl.nasa.g Orbiting Carbon Observatory OCO NASA 2008 CO2 Polar ov/ Footnotes:

1. Non-U.S. satellite systems are not included in table at this time. 2. As of 3/15/06 the operational satellite platforms may need to include NOAA-18. 3. CALIPSO -- Cloud-Aerosol Lidar & Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations DMSP -- Defense Meteorological Satellite Program EOS -- Earth Observing System GOES -- Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites NOAA -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NPOESS -- National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System OCO -- Orbiting Carbon Observatory