MOS/PRIRODA: an imaging VIS/NIR spectrometer for ocean remote sensing

The Modular Optoelectronic Scanner MOS is a spaceborne imaging spectrometer in the VIS/NIR range of optical spectrum. It was especially designed for remote sensing of the atmosphere-ocean system providing 17 channels at high radiometric resolution and high absolute calibration accuracy. It will be launched to the Russian space station MIR on board of the PRIRODA remote sensing module in the mid of 1994. The paper presents the sensor concept of an atmospheric and a biospheric spectrometer blocks and the scientific goals of the German participation within PRIRODA as well as main aspects of the entire PRIRODA mission.