Measurements and Applications
Measures cloud cover, motion, height, upper tropospheric humidity and sea surface temperature.
Full Name
METEOSAT Visible and Infra-Red Imager
Status
No longer 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
Resolution
Visible: 2.5 km, Water vapour: 5 km (after processing), TIR: 5 km
[Best Resolution: 2500m]
Swath
Full Earth disk in all three channels, every 30 minutes
Accuracy
Cloud top height: 0.5 km, Cloud top/ sea surface temperature: 0.7 K, Cloud cover 15%
Waveband
VIS - NIR: 0.5 - 0.9 µm, TIR: 5.7 - 7.1 µm (water vapour), 10.5 - 12.5 µm
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
| TIR (~6.0 µm - ~15.0 µm) |
Meteosat-3 - Meteosat-3 (1988 - 1991) |
| Meteosat-4 - Meteosat-4 (1989 - 1995) |
| Meteosat-5 - Meteosat-5 (1991 - 2007) |
| Meteosat-6 - Meteosat-6 (1993 - 2011) |
| Meteosat-7 - Meteosat-7 (1997 - 2017) |