Measurements and Applications
Measures cloud cover, cloud motion, cloud height, water vapour, rainfall, sea surface temperature and Earth radiation.
Full Name
Japanese Advanced Meteorological Imager
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
High Heritage - Operational
Instrument Type
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) 
Geometry
Earth disk scanning
Instrument Technology
Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
Sampling
Imaging
Resolution
Visible: 1 km, TIR: 4 km
[Best Resolution: 1000m]
Swath
Full Earth disk every hour
[Max Swath: 168 km]
Waveband
VIS - SWIR: 0.55 - 0.90 µm, MWIR - TIR: 3.5 - 4 µm, 6.5 - 7 µm, 10.3 - 11.3 µm, 11.5 - 12.5 µm
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| MWIR (~3.0 µm - ~6.0 µm) |
| TIR (~6.0 µm - ~15.0 µm) |
MTSAT-1R - Multi-functional Transport Satellite-1R (2005 - 2015) |