Cloud and aerosol properties, precipitable water, and profiles of temperature and water vapor from MODIS
Goddard Space Flight Center · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · +7 more institutions
Abstract
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) is an Earth-viewing sensor that flies on the Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites, launched in 1999 and 2002, respectively. MODIS scans a swath width of 2330 km that is sufficiently wide to provide nearly complete global coverage every two days from a polar-orbiting, Sun-synchronous, platform at an altitude of 705 km. MODIS provides images in 36 spectral bands between 0.415 and 14.235 /spl mu/m with spatial resolutions of 250 m (two bands), 500 m (five bands), and 1000 m (29 bands). These bands have been carefully selected to enable advanced studies of land, ocean, and atmospheric properties. Twenty-six bands are used to derive atmospheric…
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Authors
10- MDMichael D. KingCorresponding
Goddard Space Flight Center
- WPW. Paul Menzel
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- YJYoram J. Kaufman
Goddard Space Flight Center
- DTD. Tanré
Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique
- BGBo-Cai Gao
United States Naval Research Laboratory
Topics & keywords
- Moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer
- Environmental science
- Remote sensing
- Aerosol
- Precipitable water
- Spectroradiometer
- Water vapor
- Image resolution
- Life below water