ALI Instrument

Measurements and Applications

provide high quality atmospheric profiles of aerosol and cloud information

Instrument Summary

Full Name
Aerosol Limb Imager
Status
Being developed
Instrument Agencies
CSA, NASA, ECCC, USask, UQAM
Maturity
Instrument Type
High resolution optical imagers
Geometry
Limb-scanning
Instrument Technology
High resolution optical imager
Sampling
Sounding
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
TBD

Performance Summary

Resolution
 0.25 km vertical resolution
Swath
200 km swath
Accuracy
Waveband
10 bands in the 610 - 1560 nm wavelength range
VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm)
NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm)
SWIR (~1.3 µm - ~3.0 µm)

Instrument Missions

HAWCSat - High-altitude Aerosols, Water vapour and Clouds sa (2031 - 2036)

Instrument Measurements