MERIS Data Sheet
Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
MERIS, an ESA sensor developed by France, provides data to meet oceanographic, atmospheric and land observation requirements in a variety of disciplines.
| Specifications | Spectral range: 400 - 1050 mm, (15 spectral bands) |
| Resolution (nadir):0.3 x 0.3 km2 or 1.2 x 1.2 km 2 | |
| Swath width: 1150 km | |
| Mission objectives | Ocean: Monitoring concentrations of chlorophyll, yellow substance and suspended matter. Observation and mapping of sea pollution, coastal erosion and sea ice. |
| Atmosphere: Monitoring cloud distribution, cloud altitude, water vapor column content, aerosols. |
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| Land: Monitoring vegetation, inland waters, agriculture; Observing and mapping snow and ice distribution and vegetation stress. |
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| Operational ESA level 2 products (NRT) |
Aerosol type and optical thickness, cloud type and optical thickness, cloud top height, cloud top albedo, water vapour, algal pigment indices, yellow substance, mineralic suspended matter, vegetation index. |
| Products of well defined scientific topic (OFL, D-PAC) |
To be defined. |
| Higher level data
products (S-PAC) |
Maps of cloud height and distribution, water vapour distribution and atmospheric optical thickness |
The World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere
is a service of the
Cluster for Applied Remote Sensing at the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
