Cloud Aerosol Polarization Imager (CAPI)

Description

Satellite TanSat 
Weight 80kg
Power 70W
Number of Channels 5
Spatial Resolution 250m / 1000m

Characteristics

Central wavelength Bandwidth SNR @ typical radiance Polarization angles Spatial resolution
380nm 43nm 260 @ 28.0 W•m-2•sr-1•μm-1 - 250m
670nm 50nm 160 @ 22.0 W•m-2•sr-1•μm-1 0°, 60°, 120° 250m
870nm 30nm 400 @ 25.0 W•m-2•sr-1•μm-1 - 250m
1375nm 30nm 180 @ 6.0 W•m-2•sr-1•μm-1 - 1000m
1640nm 20nm 110 @ 7.3 W•m-2•sr-1•μm-1 0°, 60°, 120° 1000m

Example Product

With integrated observation data, CAPI can generate global projection image daily with single channel and pseudo-color.

CAPI daily global image

CAPI daily global projection image (part)

Three channel synthetic color image by CAPI (R=1640,G=870,B=670) show clear texture, distinguishable surface features and reasonable results of geographical location.

synthetic color image

synthetic color image

Data and Products

Satellite Instrument Datasets
TanSat CAPI L1 dataL2L3 product

Calibration and Validation

CAPI calibration and validation

CAPI

CAPI