Mineral exploration, EO-Atlas topic

Mineral exploration uses visible-to-shortwave-infrared spectral absorption features, mineral abundance, lithologic class, alteration minerals, and structural context to focus geological mapping and exploration targeting.^[1]^[2]^[3] Imaging spectroscopy identifies and maps minerals, vegetation, and other land-surface materials using spectral reflectance.^[1]^[2] EMIT maps mineral composition in arid dust-source regions using visible-to-shortwave-infrared imaging spectroscopy.^[3]^[4] EMIT data products include mineralogy derived from fitting reflectance spectra, demonstrating spaceborne mineral spectral mapping.^[5]

What's available today

11 data products, 6 services and 65 sensors. Start with the most-used; switch to Filter for the full catalogue.

11 Data products

6 Services

65 Sensors

6 open 1 commercial 4 restricted

Data products — commonly used

Open EMIT L2B Estimated Mineral Identification and Band Depth and Uncertainty

Open EnMAP L2A Surface Reflectance

Open PRISMA L2D Surface Reflectance

Open ASTER Global Emissivity Dataset (AG100 V003)

Open ASTER L2 Surface Reflectance (AST_07XT)

Restr. DESIS Level-2A Surface Reflectance

Restr. GOCE Global Gravity Field Models and Grids GOCE Electrostatic Gravity Gradiometer (EGG) · GOCE · 100 km

Restr. HISUI Level-1G Radiance

Restr. Swarm Level 2 Magnetic Field Models Swarm Vector Field Magnetometer · Swarm

Open EMIT L3 Aggregated Mineral Spectral Abundance and Uncertainty

Comm. Pixxel Firefly hyperspectral imagery Pixxel Firefly hyperspectral imager · Pixxel Firefly-2 · 17 day · 5.4 m

Services & platforms — 6

HyperScape100 Simera Sense

HySpex Mjolnir HySpex · airborne

OSK SIGMA Orbital Sidekick

Pixxel Honeybee Zero hyperspectral imager Pixxel

WorldView Legion Imager Vantor

WorldView-3 Imager Vantor

Advanced Hyperspectral Imager Gaofen-5 (GF-5)

AEISS-A KOMPSAT-3A

Antelope DPU —

ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) Terra

AWiFS Resourcesat-2

Carble Remote Sensing for Coffee and Cocoa Supply Chains —

Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer Tanager-1

CBERS-4 Infrared Multispectral Scanner 2 CBERS-4

CBERS-4 Multispectral Camera CBERS-4

CBERS-4 Panchromatic and Multispectral Imager CBERS-4

CBERS-4 Wide Field Imager 2 CBERS-4

CBERS-4A Multispectral CCD Camera CBERS-4A

CBERS-4A Wide Field Imager CBERS-4A

CBERS-4A Wide Swath Panchromatic and Multispectral Camera CBERS-4A

Copernicus EMS On Demand Mapping —

COSI (Corea SAR Instrument) KOMPSAT-5

COSMIC-EYE Area Monitoring —

COSMIC-EYE Infrastructure Monitoring —

DESIS (DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer) —

Dove Classic Planet Dove

Dove-R Planet Dove

DSCOVR Magnetometer (MAG) DSCOVR

Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) DSCOVR

ECOSTRESS (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station) ECOSTRESS ISS deployment

EnMAP HSI (Hyperspectral Imager) —

FY-4B Advanced Geostationary Radiation Imager FY-4B

GOCE Electrostatic Gravity Gradiometer (EGG) GOCE

GOES-R Magnetometer GOES-16

Hyper-Spectral Imager - 2 Huan Jing-2A

Infrared Multispectral Scanner - 2 Huan Jing-2A

KMSS High-resolution VIS/IR Radiometer Meteor-M N2-4

LISS-III (Resourcesat) Resourcesat-2

LISS-IV Resourcesat-2

MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) —

MSC (KOMPSAT-2) KOMPSAT-2

MSI (MultiSpectral Instrument) —

MSS (KANOPUS) Kanopus-V

MSU-GS Electro-L Imager Electro-L N2

MSU-MR VIS/IR Imaging Radiometer Meteor-M N2-4

NewSat multispectral camera Satellogic NewSat constellation

OLI (Operational Land Imager) —

OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) —

Panchromatic and Multi-spectral CCD Camera Gaofen-1 (GF-1)

Pléiades HiRI Pleiades-1A

PMS-2 Panchromatic and Multi-spectral CCD Camera Gaofen-2

PMS-3 high-resolution optical sensor SuperView / GaoJing constellation

SAR-C (EOS-04) EOS-04

SAR-X (RISAT-2 series) RISAT-2BR1

SARah active phased-array SAR SARah

Second Generation Global Imager (SGLI) GCOM-C (Shikisai)

SLSTR (Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer) Sentinel-3A

Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager Meteosat-10

StriX SAR Synspective StriX

SuperDove Planet Dove

Swarm Absolute Scalar Magnetometer Swarm

Swarm Vector Field Magnetometer Swarm

TerraSAR-X SAR TerraSAR-X

TIRS (Landsat 8 Thermal Infrared Sensor) Landsat 8

VectorSurv Vectorborne Disease Surveillance System —

Verde —

Wide Field Camera Gaofen-1 (GF-1)

Wide View CCD camera - 2 Huan Jing-2A

Zhuhai-1 OHS hyperspectral imager Zhuhai-1 OHS

Sources

[1]USGS Spectroscopy Lab imaging spectroscopy and spectral librariesagency doc-2026-05-27
[2]USGS Spectral Library for minerals and remote sensingagency doc-2026-05-27
[3]NASA/JPL EMIT mission overviewagency doc-2026-05-27
[4]NASA/JPL EMIT data productsagency doc-2026-05-27
[5]EMIT Earth science imaging spectroscopy mission paperagency doc2022-01-012026-05-27