CEOS Instrument: Along Track Scanning Radiometer - 2
| Instrument: | ATSR-2 |
| Agencies: | UKSA [Primary] |
| CSIRO | |
| Mission: | ERS-2 |
| Status: | No longer operational |
| Type: | Multi-channel/direction/polarisation radiometer |
| Description: | Measurements of sea surface temperature, land surface temperature, cloud top temperature and cloud cover, aerosols, vegetation, atmospheric water vapour and liquid water content |
| Spatial Resolution: | IR ocean channels: 1 x 1 km, Microwave near-nadir viewing: 20 km instantaneous field of view |
| Swath Width: | 500 km |
| Wavebands: | VIS - SWIR: 0.65 ?m, 0.85 ?m, 1.27 ?m, and 1.6 ?m, SWIR-TIR: 1.6 ?m, 3.7 ?m, 11 ?m and 12 ?m, Microwave: 23.8 GHz, 36.5 GHz (bandwidth of 400 MHz) |
| Technology: | Multi-channel/direction/polarisation radiometer |
| Description: | Imaging Vis/IR radiometer that addresses parameters observable by exploiting different viewing conditions (e.g., to convert radiances into irradiances), different polarisations (to reconstruct the electric field, i.e. the Stokes vector) and more channels (to collect more spectral signatures). A variety of configurations are possible. Multi-polarisation and multi-directionality are appropriate for short wavelengths. Channels bandwidths 2-5 %, spatial resolution typically 0.5-5 km. Applicable only in LEO. |
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CEOS Data Base Version: 17 - Created: 2012-01-18