Concept information
Preferred term
SSC
Definition
- [Source: National Space Science Data Center, http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentDisplay.do?id=1979-050A-08 ] The snow/cloud sensor was an experimental unit that was being used in conjunction with the OLS sensor on spacecraft F-4. The experiment performed by the simultaneous in-orbit use of these two sensors was primarily that of proving the proposition that snow/cloud scene discrimination could be obtained through the combination of near IR (1.6 micrometer wave-length) sensor data and OLS L-channel (visual) information. The snow/cloud detector was a "push-broom" scan radiometer that depended upon orbital velocity of the 5D spacecraft to provide the along track scan and a linear array of 48 detector elements at the image plane of a wide lens to provide a 40.2 deg cross track scan. The sensor depended upon reflected solar energy in the 1.51 to 1.63 micrometer spectral band for its input signal. Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: SSC Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Earth Remote Sensing Instruments Instrument_Class: Passive Remote Sensing Instrument_Type: Spectrometers/Radiometers Instrument_Subtype: Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers Short_Name: SSC Long_Name: Snow/Cloud Discriminator Special Sensor C End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: DMSP 5D-1/F4 End_Group Online_Resource: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentDisplay.do?id=1979-050A-08 Creation_Date: 2008-09-25 Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Owner: Department of Defense-Department of the Air Force (United States) End_Group End_Group (en)
Broader concept
URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/e9764a4c-745e-43ac-b8bd-101ef391f014
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