AMSR Instrument

Measurements and Applications

Measurements of water vapour, cloud liquid water, precipitation, winds, sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration, snow cover, soil moisture.

Instrument Summary

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
Data Access
Data Format

Performance Summary

Resolution
5 - 50 km (dependent on frequency)
Swath
1600 km
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
MWIR (~3.0 µm - ~6.0 µm)

Instrument Missions

ADEOS-II - Advanced Earth Observing Satellite - II (2002 - 2003)

Instrument Measurements