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OAS insttype Detail for AMSR-E
| insttypes_id: | 100 |
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| Term: | AMSR-E |
| Description: | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS |
| Definition: | NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua Satellite was launched from Vandenberg AFB, California on May 4, 2002 at 02:54:58 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. The primary goal of Aqua, as the name implies, is to gather information about water in the Earth's system. The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - EOS (AMSR-E) is a one of the six sensors aboard the satellite Aqua. AMSR-E is passive microwave radiometer, modified from the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II (ADEOS-II) AMSR, designed and provided by NASDA (contractor: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation). It observes atmospheric, land, oceanic, and cryospheric parameters, including precipitation, sea surface temperatures, ice concentrations, snow water equivalent, surface wetness, wind speed, atmospheric cloud water, and water vapor. (From: http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/AMSR/) |
| Context: | GHRSST-PP data stream archived at NODC |
| Deprecated: | false |
| Metadata version: | 0 |
| Keydate: | 2005-05-04 18:29:19.296887+00 |
| Editdate: | 2005-05-04 18:29:19.30503+00 |