Payloads:
MESSR (Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer)
| Wavebands
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0.51-0.59
µm (visible): water body mapping
0.61-0.69 µm (visible): vegetation differentiation
0.72-0.80 µm (near IR): imaging through haze
0.80-1.10 µm (near IR): land/water separation
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| Resolution
| 50 m
|
| Swath width
| 100 km
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VTIR (Visible and Thermal IR Radiometer)
| Wavebands
|
0.50-0.70
µm (visible): snow. ice and cloud
6-7 µm (water vapor band): upper atmosphere water vapor, cirrus
10.5-11.5 µm (thermal IR): ocean currents. sea surface temperature,
snow
10.5-12.5 µm (thermal IR): ocean currents. sea surface temperature, snow
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| Resolution
| visible: 0.9 km; others: 2.7 km
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| Swath width
| 1500 km
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MSR (Microwave Scanning Radiometer)
| Wavebands
|
23.8
+/- 0.2 GHz: water vapor, rain and snowfall
31.4 +/- 0.25 GHz: ice, cloud, snowfall
|
| Resolution
| 32 km in 23 GHz and 23 in 31 GHz
|
| Swath width
| 317 km
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Downlink frequency: 136.12 & 2220 MHz
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01 Jan 1990: MOS-1b after attaching to the rocket in the
service tower, with the DEBUT satellite on his site. - Credit: JAXA
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