Measurements and Applications
Measurements of cloud cover, cloud top height, precipitation, cloud motion, vegetation, radiation fluxes, convection, air mass analysis, cirrus cloud discrimination, tropopause monitoring, stability monitoring, total ozone and sea surface temperature.
Full Name
Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infra-Red Imager
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) 
Geometry
Earth disk scanning
Instrument Technology
Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
native
Resolution
HRV=1 km, All other channels=3 km (spatial sampling distance at SSP)
[Best Resolution: 1000m]
Swath
9 km swath scanning E-W, moving up S-N a swath width at the end of each swath. Full Disc Coverage (FDC) or Local Area Coverage (LAC) possible.
[Max Swath: 9 km]
Accuracy
Cloud cover: 10%, Cloud top height: 1 km, Cloud top temperature: 1 K, Cloud type: 8 classes, Surface temperature: 0.7 - 2.0 K, Specific humidity profile: 10%, Wind profile (horizontal component): 2 - 10 m/s, Long wave Earth surface radiation: 5 W/m2
Waveband
VIS0.6=0.5975 - 0.6725 µm, VIS0.8=0.775 - 0.845 µm, NIR1.6=1.57 - 1.71 µm, IR3.9=3.7 - 4.14 µm, WV6.3=5.8 - 6.7 µm, WV7.3=7.1 - 7.6 µm, IR8.7=8.5 - 8.9 µm, IR9.7=9.52 - 9.8 µm, IR10.8=10.3 - 11.3 µm, IR12.0=11.5 - 12.5 µm, IR13.4=12.9 - 13.9 µm, HRV=~0.48
| 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) |
Meteosat-8 - Meteosat Second Generation-1 (2002 - 2022) |
Meteosat-9 - Meteosat Second Generation-2 (2005 - 2027) |
| Meteosat-10 - Meteosat Second Generation-3 (2012 - 2030) |
| Meteosat-11 - Meteosat Second Generation-4 (2015 - 2033) |