German Participation Within the International Earth Observation Mission PRIRODA.

The project PRIRODA is a multisensor mission with active and passive MW- and optical sensors for earth observation. This device will be installed aboard a specialized module to be launched and docked at the MIR station in May 1993. The goal of the mission is the development and verification of multisensor remote sensing methods for the investigation of landscenes, oceans, the atmosphere and the ecological environment. The German participation in the mission PRIRODA enclose - contribution to scientific payload - proposed scientific experiments - cooperation at ground truth and data processing. As payload contribution is developed the imageing spectrometer MOS for optical sensing of oceans and atmosphere in the VIS-NIR region. For the scientific programme several German institutes made 16 experiment proposals