CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- ERBE
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Full Name
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Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
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Status
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No longer operational
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Instrument Agencies
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NASA
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Maturity
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Instrument Type
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Earth radiation budget radiometers 
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Geometry
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Instrument Technology
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Broad-band radiometer
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Sampling
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Other
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Data Access
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Data Format
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Measurements and Applications
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Radiation budget measurements - Total energy of Sun's radiant heat and light, Reflected solar radiation, Earth emitted radiation.
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Resolution Summary
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1000 km sun, 40 km Earth
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Swath Summary
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Full sun and full earth views
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Accuracy Summary
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Waveband Summary
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Sunview: NIR - FIR: 0.2 - 3.5 µm, 0.2 - 50.0 µm; Channel 5: 0.2 - 50.0 µm; Earth view: 0.2 - 50.0 µm
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| UV (~0.01 µm - ~0.40 µm) |
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
| SWIR (~1.3 µm - ~3.0 µm) |
| MWIR (~3.0 µm - ~6.0 µm) |
| TIR (~6.0 µm - ~15.0 µm) |
| FIR (~15.0 µm - ~0.1 cm) |
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Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
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Instrument Missions
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