Future Satellite for Meteorological Application

• INSAT-3D (2008)

• • 19 channel IR sounder for temperature and water vapour profiles
  • 6 channel imager

• Mega Tropiques

• • Radiometers: Radiation instruments for water vapour profile, radiation budget, ice particles in cloud tops, sea surface wind speed.

• Oceansat-II

• • Scattermeter, OCM: Ocean wind, ocean state forecast, Tropical cyclone, ocean colour, aerosol.