meris

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Acronym for Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, an ocean color sensor It is a push-broom instrument that measures the radiation reflected from the Earth's surface and from clouds in the visible and near-infrared range during the daytime The 1150 km wide swatch of the instrument is divided into 5 segments covered by 5 identical cameras having corresponding fields of view with slight overlap between adjacent cameras The geophysical parameters derived from MERIS measurements include ocean color in open and coastal waters, e g chlorophyll, gelbstoffe, and other pigments, qualitative parameters such as presence ofclouds and emerged land, and atmospheric parameters like aerosol optical thickness, cloud albedo, Angstrom exponent, top pressure, and water vapor column contents See the MERIS Web site
Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
Medium resolution imaging spectrometer (European polar platform)