CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- ALI
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Full Name
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Aerosol Limb Imager
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Status
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Being developed
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Instrument Agencies
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CSA , NASA , ECCC, USask, UQAM
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Maturity
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Instrument Type
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High resolution optical imagers 
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Geometry
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Limb-scanning
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Instrument Technology
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High resolution optical imager
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Sampling
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Sounding
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Data Access
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Open Access
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Data Format
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TBD
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Measurements and Applications
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provide high quality atmospheric profiles of aerosol and cloud information
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Resolution Summary
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0.25 km vertical resolution
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Swath Summary
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200 km swath
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Accuracy Summary
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Waveband Summary
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10 bands in the 610 - 1560 nm wavelength range
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| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
| SWIR (~1.3 µm - ~3.0 µm) |
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Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
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Instrument Missions
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