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EOS

Satellites

Terra and Aqua

Orbit Type

Polar

Instrument

MODIS

Resolution

0.25 km bands 1-2, 0.50 km bands 3-7, 1.0 km bands 8-38

 



Band

Central
Wavelength
(µm)



Primary Uses

1

0.6465

Land/Cloud Boundaries

2

0.8567

Land/Cloud Boundaries

3

0.4656

Land/Cloud Properties

4

0.5537

Land/Cloud Properties

5

1.2419

Land/Cloud Properties

6

1.6291

Land/Cloud Properties

7

2.1143

Land/Cloud Properties

8

0.4118

Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry

9

0.4421

Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry

10

0.4869

Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry

11

0.5297

Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry

12

0.5468

Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry

13*

0.6656

Low polarization Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry

14*

0.6767

Low polarization Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry

15

0.7464

Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry

16

0.8662

Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry

17

0.9041

Atmospheric Water Vapor

18

0.9353

Atmospheric Water Vapor

19

0.9361

Atmospheric Water Vapor

20

3.7882

Surface/Cloud Temperature

21

3.9921

Surface/Cloud Temperature

22

3.9719

Surface/Cloud Temperature

23

4.0567

Surface/Cloud Temperature

24

4.4732

Atmospheric Temperature

25

4.5454

Atmospheric Temperature

26

1.3820

Cirrus Cloud Water Vapor

27

6.7654

Cirrus Cloud Water Vapor

28

7.3367

Cirrus Cloud Water Vapor

29

8.5288

Cirrus Cloud Water Vapor

30

9.7344

Ozone

31

11.0186

Surface/Cloud Temperature

32

12.0325

Surface/Cloud Temperature

33

13.3651

Cloud Top Altitude

34

13.6835

Cloud Top Altitude

35

13.9133

Cloud Top Altitude

36

14.1957

Cloud Top Altitude

37*

0.6656

High polarization Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry

38*

0.6767

High polarization Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry

* Channels 13B and 14B are labeled in McIDAS as bands 37 and 38, respectively

 

Satellite

Aqua

Orbit Type

Polar

Instrument

AIRS

Resolution

13.5 km

AIRS data contains 2378 bands (channels). They are not listed here because of space considerations. The website http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/AIRS/documentation.shtml and files AIRSBAND.DOC and SATBAND in the ~mcidas/data directory contain complete listings of the bands.


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