Microwave Sensors

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Mission: to foster high quality calibration and validation of microwave sensors for remote sensing purposes. These include both active and passive types, airborne and space-borne sensors.

Atmospheric Composition

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Mission: to ensure accurate and traceable calibration of remotely-sensed atmospheric composition radiance data and validation of higher level products, for application to atmospheric composition, land, ocean, and climate research.

Synthetic Aperature Radar

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Mission: to foster high-quality synthetic aperture radar data from airborne and spaceborne systems through precision calibration in radiometry, phase and geometry, and validation of higher level products.

IR and VIS Optical Sensors

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Mission: to ensure high quality calibration and validation of infrared and visible optical data from Earth observation satellites and validation of higher level products.

Terrain Mapping

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Mission: to ensure that characteristics of digital terrain models produced from Earth observation sensors at global and regional scales are well understood and that products are validated and used for appropriate applications.

Land Product Validation

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Mission: to foster quantitative validation of higher-level global land products derived from remote sensing data and to relay results so they are relevant to users.