CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- VTPR
-
|
|
Full Name
|
Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer
|
Status
|
No longer operational
|
|
Instrument Agencies
|
NOAA
|
Maturity
|
|
|
Instrument Type
|
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) 
|
Geometry
|
Cross-track scanning
|
|
Instrument Technology
|
Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
|
Sampling
|
Imaging
|
|
Data Access
|
|
Data Format
|
|
|
|
Measurements and Applications
|
Atmospheric temperature profile. 8-channel TIR/FIR filter radiometer [see detailed characteristic below]
|
|
|
Resolution Summary
|
55 km at s.s.p
[Best Resolution: 55000m]
|
|
Swath Summary
|
1800km
[Max Swath: 1809 km]
|
|
Accuracy Summary
|
55 km at s.s.p
|
|
Waveband Summary
|
8-channel TIR/FIR filter radiometer
|
|
|
|
|
Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
|
|
|
|
Instrument Missions
|
|
|