Measurements and Applications
Measurements of water vapour, cloud liquid water, precipitation, winds, sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration, snow cover, soil moisture.
Full Name
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave)
Geometry
Conical scanning
Instrument Technology
Multi-purpose imaging MW radiometer
Sampling
Imaging
Resolution
5 - 50 km (dependent on frequency)
Accuracy
Sea surface temparature: 0.5 K, sea ice cover: 10%, cloud liquid water: 0.05 kg/m2, precipitation rate: 10%, water vapour: 3.5 kg/m2 through total column, sea surface wind speed 1.5 m/s
Waveband
Microwave: 6.925 GHz, 10.65 GHz, 18.7 GHz, 23.8 GHz, 36.5 GHz, 50.3 GHz, 52.8 GHz, 89.0 GHz
ADEOS-II - Advanced Earth Observing Satellite - II (2002 - 2003) |