MISR Level 1B2 Terrain Data: UAE Region Satellite Imagery

Nine push-broom cameras on NASA's MISR instrument captured terrain-projected radiance for the UAE region in four spectral bands. The instrument views each surface location from nine different angles over seven minutes, with view angles ranging from 0 to 70.5 degrees. This data product is designed to monitor long-term trends in atmospheric aerosols, clouds, and land surface cover.

Use Cases

• Classifying land surface cover types based on multi-angle, multi-spectral radiance data.
• Analyzing atmospheric aerosol types and concentrations based on spectral band measurements at 443, 555, 670, and 865 nm.
• Estimating cloud heights and types using the nine different camera view angles.
• Developing topographic correction models for satellite imagery based on the terrain-projected, geometrically corrected data.

Strengths

• Data collection is described as complete, indicating a finalized dataset.
• Contains radiance data from nine cameras at four specific spectral bands (443, 555, 670, 865 nm).
• Provides geometrically and topographically corrected terrain-projected data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Collected by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on a satellite platform.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 00:13:25.476501; freshness should be verified.

Geography

UAE region