MISR's nine cameras capture each piece of Earth's surface from different angles in four spectral wavelengths. This Level 3 product aggregates a year of data to provide cloud top height and optical depth measurements. The data was produced by the LARC_CLOUD organization using the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer instrument.
Use Cases
- Analyze seasonal trends in cloud top height to study atmospheric dynamics and storm development.
- Correlate cloud optical depth with aerosol measurements to investigate aerosol indirect effects on clouds.
- Validate and improve climate model simulations of cloud cover using spatially aggregated height and depth data.
- Distinguish cloud types by combining multi-angle structural information with optical property data.
Strengths
- Data derived from nine distinct camera angles, providing structural information unavailable from single-view sensors.
- Product aggregates measurements over a full year, enabling analysis of monthly and seasonal trends.
Limitations
- Specific spatial resolution, row count, and temporal coverage within the year are unknown.
- As a Level 3 product, data is gridded and averaged, losing the native resolution of Level 2 swath data.
Provenance
- Source
- Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on a NASA satellite, processed by LARC_CLOUD.
- Collection Method
- Remote sensing data collected from nine cameras pointed in different directions, across four wavelengths (blue, green, red, near-infrared).
- Time Range
- Covers one year; specific year is unknown.
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Global coverage of Earth's surface.