Envisat Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) Global Binned Remote-Sensing Reflectance (RRS) Data
MERIS (Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) is a programmable, medium-spectral resolution, imaging spectrometer operating in the solar reflective spectral range. Fifteen spectral bands can be selected by ground command. The instrument scans the Earth's surface by the so called "push-broom" method. Linear CCD arrays provide spatial sampling in the across-track direction, while the satellite's motion provides scanning in the along-track direction. MERIS is designed so that it can acquire data over the Earth whenever illumination conditions are suitable. The instrument's 68.5-degree field-of-view around nadir covers a swath width of 1150 km. This wide field of view is shared between five identical optical modules arranged in a fan shape configuration.
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| Spatial Extent: | Bounding Rectangle: N: 90.0 S: -90.0 E: 180.0 W: -180.0 |
Data Format(s): | Distribution: netCDF4 |
| Temporal Extent: | Platform(s): | Envisat | |
| Data Center(s): | NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/OB.DAAC | Instrument(s): | MERIS |
| Version: | 2014 | ||
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/meris, NASA Ocean Color Web - Instrument Description Page
- ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD): https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd/rrs, NASA Ocean Color Web - Algorithm Descriptions
- PROCESSING HISTORY: https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/reprocessing, NASA Ocean Color Web - Data Processing History
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/forum/oceancolor/forum_show.pl, Ocean Color Forum
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DOI
10.5067/Envisat/MERIS/L3B/RRS/2012
https://doi.org
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- GEOGRAPHIC REGION
- GLOBAL
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Format: netCDF4
Format Type: Native