Measurements and Applications
Takes pictures of atmospheric band emissions from below the satellite. This provides complementary information on smaller spatial scales, albeit restricted to a single spectral channel. Because of the nadir instruments susceptibility to the background light of the lower atmosphere, the nadir imaging will be restricted to the night-side of the terminator. The nadir instrument is basically a wide-angle camera.
Full Name
Nadir Imager
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) 
Geometry
Nadir-viewing
Instrument Technology
Limb-scanning IR spectrometer
Sampling
Resolution
10km
[Best Resolution: 10000m]
Swath
300 km
[Max Swath: 300 km]
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
MATS - Mesospheric Airglow/Aerosol Tomography and Spectroscopy (2022 - 2025) |