MISR Ancillary Radiometric Product: Instrument Calibration and Configuration Data

MIANCARP_2 is the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Ancillary Radiometric Product version 2 from NASA. It contains four files covering instrument characterization, pre-flight calibration, in-flight calibration, and configuration parameters for the nine-camera MISR instrument. The instrument measures radiance in four spectral bands centered at 443, 555, 670, and 865 nm from nine different view angles.

Use Cases

• Calibrating MISR radiance measurements based on pre-flight and in-flight calibration data
• Modeling atmospheric effects based on multi-angle view data from nine cameras
• Validating spectral band performance based on Gaussian band shape parameters
• Configuring instrument processing pipelines based on provided configuration parameters

Strengths

• Data covers the full instrument lifecycle with pre-flight, in-flight, and characterization files
• Provides specific view angles (0, 26.1, 45.6, 60.0, and 70.5 degrees) and spectral bands (443, 555, 670, 865 nm)
• Produced by NASA, a leading authority in Earth observation

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data is stored in specialized formats (BIN, ISO, KML) requiring specific tools for access

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Collected by the MISR instrument's nine pushbroom cameras on the Terra satellite

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 00:16:39.369434; freshness should be verified

Geography

Global coverage achieved in nine days