AVHRR

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AVHRR is a spaceborne radiometer used on polar-orbiting weather satellites to measure Earth’s surface and atmospheric properties across multiple spectral bands for meteorological and environmental monitoring.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf imaging radiometer
meteorological instrument
remote sensing instrument
spaceborne radiometer
acronymFor Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer NERFINISHED
dataFormat Level 1b radiance data
Level 2 geophysical products
dataUsedFor climate monitoring
fire detection
ice and snow monitoring
land cover change detection
oceanographic studies
sea surface temperature climatologies
vegetation index time series
weather forecasting
developer NOAA NERFINISHED
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NERFINISHED
firstLaunchOn TIROS-N satellite
fullName Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer NERFINISHED
hasCapability day and night observation
global coverage
multispectral imaging
sea surface temperature retrieval
vegetation monitoring
hasSpectralBands near-infrared
shortwave infrared
thermal infrared
visible
hasVersion AVHRR/1 NERFINISHED
AVHRR/2 NERFINISHED
AVHRR/3 NERFINISHED
AVHRR/3A NERFINISHED
AVHRR/3B NERFINISHED
measures Earth surface properties
albedo
atmospheric properties
cloud cover
cloud top temperature
land surface temperature
sea surface temperature
snow and ice extent
vegetation index
operatedOn polar-orbiting weather satellites
orbitType near-polar
sun-synchronous
primaryUse environmental monitoring
meteorological monitoring
spectralRange approximately 0.58 to 12.5 micrometers
swathWidth approximately 2399 km
typicalSpatialResolution approximately 1.1 km at nadir
usedOn MetOp satellites NERFINISHED
NOAA polar-orbiting satellites NERFINISHED
TIROS-N series satellites NERFINISHED

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