Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers
type: Concept

TROPOMI
type: Concept
in scheme: instruments
change note: 2018-10-11 16:01:21.0 [mmorahan] insert AltLabel (id: null category: primary text: Sentinel-5P TROPOMI language code: en); insert Definition (id: null text: The TROPOMI instrument is a space-borne, nadir-viewing, imaging spectrometer covering wavelength bands between the ultraviolet and the shortwave infrared. The instrument, the single payload of the Sentinel-5P spacecraft, uses passive remote sensing techniques to attain its objective by measuring, at the Top Of Atmosphere (TOA), the solar radiation reflected by and radiated from the earth. The instrument operates in a push-broom configuration (non-scanning), with a swath width of ~2600 km on the Earth's surface. The typical pixel size (near nadir) will be 7x3.5 km2 for all spectral bands, with the exception of the UV1 band (7x28 km2) and SWIR bands (7x7 km2). language code: en); insert WeightedRelation (id: null related concept uuid: 77e9a75e-2c3b-428b-8b21-b6a902dd8fee relationship type: null relationship value: null generated by: null);
change note: 2018-10-11 15:55:35.0 [mmorahan] Insert Concept add broader relation (TROPOMI [74ee2866-0e9e-4c20-8003-0621af6552f3,368155] - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers [944b7691-af37-4fb4-9393-c114e7997829,347979]);
change note: 2020-06-19 05:11:28.0 [mmorahan] update AltLabel (TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument);
definition: The TROPOMI instrument is a space-borne, nadir-viewing, imaging spectrometer covering wavelength bands between the ultraviolet and the shortwave infrared. The instrument, the single payload of the Sentinel-5P spacecraft, uses passive remote sensing techniques to attain its objective by measuring, at the Top Of Atmosphere (TOA), the solar radiation reflected by and radiated from the earth. The instrument operates in a push-broom configuration (non-scanning), with a swath width of ~2600 km on the Earth's surface. The typical pixel size (near nadir) will be 7x3.5 km2 for all spectral bands, with the exception of the UV1 band (7x28 km2) and SWIR bands (7x7 km2).