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METOP-1,-2 |
INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION |
*Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 (AVHRR) |
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Visible/infrared imaging radiometer
for global measurement of cloud cover, sea surface temperature, ice, snow
and vegetation cover and characteristics, 6 channels, 2894 km swath width
with 1.1 km resolution at nadir.
Channel 1 : 0.58-0.68 mm,
visible
(Silicon Photodiodes ).
Channel 2 : 0.725-1.0 mm,
near-infrared
(Silicon photodiodes ).
Channel 3A : 1.58-1.64 mm,
near-infrared
(indium-gallium-arsenide photodiode ).
Channel 3B : 3.55-3.93 mm,
infrared
( indium antimonide detector ).
Channel 4 : 10.3-11.3 mm,
infrared
(mercury-cadium telluride detector ).
Channel 5 : 11.5-12.5 mm,
infrared
(mercury-cadium telluride detector ). |
*High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder/4 (HIRS) |
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Atmospheric Sounder for temperature
and humidity profiles, surface temperature, cloud parameters and total
ozone, 19 infrared channels (3.8-15mm), 1 visible
channel, 2160 km swath width with 10 km resolution at nadir.
Channel 1 : 14.959 mm
--- Channel 11 : 7.326 mm
Channel 2 : 14.706 mm
--- Channel 12 : 6.523 mm
Channel 3 : 14.493 mm
--- Channel 13 : 4.570 mm
Channel 4 : 14.225 mm ---
Channel 14 : 4.525 mm
Channel 5 : 13.966 mm
--- Channel 15 : 4.474 mm
Channel 6 : 13.643 mm ---
Channel 16 : 4.454 mm
Channel 7 : 13.351 mm ---
Channel 17 : 4.132 mm
Channel 8 : 11.111 mm ---
Channel 18 : 3.976 mm
Channel 9 : 9.709 mm ----
Channel 19 : 3.759 mm
Channel 10 : 12.469 mm
-- Channel 20 : 0.690 mm |
*Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A1 and A2 (AMSU) |
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Microwave sounder for temperature and
humidity sounding under complete overcast condition, 15 channels. (23-90
Ghz), 3 dB field of view is 3.3 degree with resolution of 45 km at nadir,
~2054 km swath width. |
*Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) |
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Microwave sounder for humidity sounding and
stimation of precipitation rate, 5 channe
(89-183 Ghz), 3 dB field of view is 1.1 degree with resolution of 15 km
at nadir, ~2156 km swath width.
Channel
H1 : 89.0 GHz
Channel
H2 : 157 GHz
Channel H3 : 183.311±1.00 GHz
Channel H4 : 183.311±3.00 GHz
Channel
H5 : 190.311 GHz |
*ARGOS/Data Collection System/2 (DCS/2) |
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UHF receiver (401.65 MHz) and signal processor
for locating and/or collecting meteorological data from remote fixed and
free floating terrestrial and atmospheric platforms. |
*Search and Rescue Satellite (SARSAT) aided
Tracking System |
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VHF/UHF transponder and signal processor
for locating and collecting information from remote distress platforms
such as Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs), and Emergency Position Indicating
Radio Beacons (EPIRBs). SARSAT receives distress signals at 121.5 MHz,
243 MHz, and 406.05 MHz and retransmits at 1544.5 MHz. |
*Space Environment Monitor (SEM) |
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Multi-channel charged particle spectrometer
for measurements of the population of the earth's radiation belts and the
solar proton and electron flux density. SEM consists of a common Data Processing
Unit (PDU), two separate sensors, the Total Energy Detector (TED) and the
Medium Energy Proton and Electron Detector (MEPED). |
*Solar Backscatter Ultra-Violet Spectral
Radiometer/2 (SBUV) |
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Dual monochromatic UV grating spectrometer
and a fixed-spectral-band UV radiometer. |
*Infrared Atmospheric Sounding
Interferometer (IASI) |
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Infrared Michelson Interferometer
for temperature sounding, water vapour, and ozone monitoring. IASI covers
the spectral range from 3.62-15.5 mm, 2112 km
swath width a resolution of 48 km at radir.
Band I : 15.5 - 8.26 mm
Band II : 8.26 - 5.0 mm
Band III : 5.0 - 3.62 mm |
Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) |
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Pulsed radar in C-band at 5.2555 GHz for
global sea surface wind vector measurement. ASCAT had two 500 km wide swaths
with spatial resolution <50 km |
*Global Navigation Satellite System Receiver
and Atmospheric Sounding (GRAS) |
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Radio occultation receiver for atmosphere
sounding. |
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) |
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Nadir viewing UV and visible spectrometer
to measure radiation back-scattered from the atmosphere and reflected from
the earth surface in the UV and visible range 240-790 nm with a spectral
resolution of 0.2-0.4 nm. |
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