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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- ATSR
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Full Name
Along Track Scanning Radiometer
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
UKSA
,
CSIRO
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR)
Geometry
Conical scanning
Instrument Technology
Multi-channel/direction/polarisation radiometer
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Data Format
Measurements and Applications
Measurements of sea surface temperature, land surface temperature, cloud top temperature and cloud cover, aerosols, vegetation, atmospheric water vapour and liquid water content.
Resolution Summary
Swath Summary
Accuracy Summary
Waveband Summary
TIR (~6.0 µm - ~15.0 µm)
Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
Category
Parameter
Aerosols
Aerosol Extinction / Backscatter (column/profile)
Aerosol optical depth (column/profile)
Aerosol absorption optical depth (column/profile)
Albedo and reflectance
Earth surface albedo
Atmospheric Humidity Fields
Atmospheric specific humidity (LT)
Atmospheric Temperature Fields
Atmospheric temperature (LT)
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature
Cloud type
Liquid water and precipitation rate
Precipitation intensity at the surface (liquid or solid)
Multi-purpose imagery (land)
Land surface imagery
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)
Ocean imagery and water leaving spectral radiance
Ozone
O3 Mole Fraction
Radiation budget
Short-wave Earth surface bi-directional reflectance
Surface temperature (land)
Land surface temperature
Surface temperature (ocean)
Sea surface temperature
Vegetation
Vegetation type
Thematic Links
Global Climate Observing System Essential Climate Variables (GCOS ECVs)
ECV
Description
Product(s)
ECV Inventory 3.0 Record(s)
Aerosols properties
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Albedo
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Land Surface Temperature
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Ocean Colour
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Ozone
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Precipitation
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Sea Surface Temperature
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Temperature (upper-air)
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Water Vapour (upper air)
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Instrument Missions
ERS-1 - European Remote Sensing satellite - 1 (1991 - 2000)
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