Meteorological Imager (MI)

MI

Meteorological Imager

Satellite

COMS-1

Status

Being integrated – To be utilised in the period 2009 to ~ 2016

Mission

Multi-purpose VIS/IR imagery and wind derivation by tracking clouds and water vapour features

Instrument type

5-channel VIS/IR radiometer

Coverage/cycle

Full disk in 27 min. Limited areas in correspondingly shorter time intervals

Resolution (s.s.p.)

1 km IFOV in 1 VIS channel, 4 km IFOV in 4 IR channels

Resources

Mass: … kg - Power: … W - Data rate: … Mbps



Central wavelength

Spectral interval

Radiometric accuracy (NEΔT or SNR)

0.675 µm

0.55 - 0.8 µm

10 @ 5 % albedo, 170 @ 100 % albedo

3.75 µm

3.50 - 4.0 µm

0.10 K @ 300 K

6.75 µm

6.5 - 7.0 µm

0.12 K @ 300 K

10.8 µm

10.3 - 11.3 µm

0.12 K @ 300 K

12 µm

11.5 - 12.5 µm

0.20 K @ 300 K



Last updated June 2008