# OMPS (Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite)
*sensor . products*

Three-spectrometer UV-VIS ozone suite flown on Suomi NPP and JPSS satellites, combining nadir total-column mapping, nadir ozone profiling, and limb ozone profiling.

## Specifications
- **product status**: operational
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **manufacturer**: ball-aerospace
- **sensor**: {"instrument_family":"passive-optical","measurement_principle":"passive","spectral_range_nm":{"min":250,"max":1000},"gsd_m":{"native":50},"swath_km":2800,"channels":[{"name":"Nadir Mapper","spectral_range_nm":{"min":300,"max":420},"gsd_m":{"native":50}},{"name":"Nadir Profiler","spectral_range_nm":{"min":250,"max":310},"gsd_m":{"native":250}},{"name":"Limb Profiler","spectral_range_nm":{"min":290,"max":1000}}],"notes":"The limb profiler provides about 1 km vertical sampling; NOAA-20 carries the OMPS nadir sensor but not the limb profiler."}
- **entity type**: sensor
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-14
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **provider**: ball-aerospace
- **attributes**: {"kind":"sensor","product_status":"operational","deployment_context":"orbital","manufacturer":"ball-aerospace","description":"Three-spectrometer UV-VIS ozone suite flown on Suomi NPP and JPSS satellites, combining nadir total-column mapping, nadir ozone profiling, and limb ozone profiling.","sensor":"{\"instrument_family\":\"passive-optical\",\"measurement_principle\":\"passive\",\"spectral_range_nm\":{\"min\":250,\"max\":1000},\"gsd_m\":{\"native\":50},\"swath_km\":2800,\"channels\":[{\"name\":\"Nadir Mapper\",\"spectral_range_nm\":{\"min\":300,\"max\":420},\"gsd_m\":{\"native\":50}},{\"name\":\"Nadir Profiler\",\"spectral_range_nm\":{\"min\":250,\"max\":310},\"gsd_m\":{\"native\":250}},{\"name\":\"Limb Profiler\",\"spectral_range_nm\":{\"min\":290,\"max\":1000}}],\"notes\":\"The limb profiler provides about 1 km vertical sampling; NOAA-20 carries the OMPS nadir sensor but not the limb profiler.\"}"}
- **technology**: optical-spectral-sensing
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
OMPS is the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite flown on Suomi NPP and JPSS spacecraft for ozone mapping and profiling [^nasa-earthdata-omps][^bae-omps]. The suite combines a nadir mapper, a nadir profiler, and a limb profiler, although NOAA-20 carries the OMPS nadir sensor without the limb profiler [^nasa-earthdata-omps][^noaa-star-omps][^wmo-omps-limb]. This makes OMPS a suite-level product rather than a single uniform optical channel.

The nadir mapper covers 300 to 420 nm with about 50 km native ground sampling and a 2800 km cross-track swath [^wmo-omps-nadir]. The nadir profiler covers 250 to 310 nm with about 250 km native ground sampling [^nasa-earthdata-omps]. The limb profiler covers 290 to 1000 nm and provides about 1 km vertical sampling for limb ozone profiles [^wmo-omps-limb]. The combined suite row therefore records 250 to 1000 nm, while the nadir specification records 250 to 420 nm and the limb profile channel records 290 to 1000 nm [^nasa-earthdata-omps][^wmo-omps-limb].

For buyers, OMPS is relevant where operational ozone continuity, broad nadir mapping, and vertical profile information are required alongside moderate spatial sampling. Its nadir mapper supports wide-swath total-column products, the nadir profiler supports ozone profile retrievals, and the limb profiler adds vertical context where carried by the spacecraft [^nasa-earthdata-omps][^noaa-star-omps]. Ball Aerospace, now part of BAE Systems, designed and built the currently on-orbit OMPS instruments [^bae-omps]. Buyers should check the host spacecraft and product stream before assuming limb coverage, because the suite configuration varies by mission instance [^noaa-star-omps][^wmo-omps-limb].

## Compositional position
- suomi-npp (missions) --[mission_payloads]--> OMPS (Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite)
- noaa-20 (missions) --[mission_payloads]--> OMPS (Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite)

## Sources
- [nasa-earthdata-omps] | NASA Earthdata instrument record: OMPS | https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/instruments/omps | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-14
- [noaa-star-omps] | NOAA STAR JPSS instrument page: OMPS | https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/jpss/OMPS.php | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-14
- [wmo-omps-nadir] | WMO OSCAR instrument record: OMPS-nadir | https://space.oscar.wmo.int/instruments/view/omps_nadir | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-14
- [wmo-omps-limb] | WMO OSCAR instrument record: OMPS-limb | https://space.oscar.wmo.int/instruments/view/omps_limb | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-14
- [bae-omps] | BAE Systems product page: OMPS | https://www.baesystems.com/en/product/omps | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-06-14

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