Array · collection · 2005
MISR Level 3 Component Global Albedo seasonal product in netCDF format V006
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/terra/misr/mil3qaln_l3.006
MIL3QALN_006 is the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Level 3 Component Global Albedo seasonal product in netCDF format version 6 data product.
Description
It is a global summary of relevant Level 2 albedo parameters, averaged over a quarter and reported on a geographic grid, it has multiple data layers, with varying temporal resolutions of 1 degree by 1 degree and 5 degrees by 5 degrees. The seasons are winter (December from the previous year, January, February), spring (March, April, May), summer (June, July, August), and fall (September, October, November).
Data collection for this product is ongoing. The MISR instrument consists of nine push-broom cameras that measure radiance in four spectral bands. Global coverage is achieved in nine days.
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The cameras are arranged with one camera pointing toward the nadir, four forward, and four aftward. It takes seven minutes for all nine cameras to view the same surface location. The view angles relative to the surface reference ellipsoid are 0, 26.1, 45.6, 60.0, and 70.5 degrees.
The spectral band shapes are nominally Gaussian, centered at 443, 555, 670, and 865 nm. MISR is designed to view Earth with cameras pointed in 9 different directions. As the instrument flies overhead, each piece of Earth's surface below is successfully imaged by all nine cameras in 4 wavelengths (blue, green, red, and near-infrared).
The goal of MISR is to improve our understanding of the effects of sunlight on Earth and distinguish different types of clouds, particles, and surfaces. Specifically, MISR monitors the monthly, seasonal, and long-term trends in three areas: 1) amount and type of atmospheric particles (aerosols), including those formed by natural sources and by human activities; 2) amounts, types, and heights of clouds, and 3) distribution of land surface cover, including vegetation canopy structure.
Links
Get the data
- DOI data set landing page for MIL3QALN_6 doi.org/10.5067/terra/misr/mil3qaln_l3.006 ↗
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/1187/NASA_SOP_2007_Following_the_World_Trade_Ce… ↗
NASA Earthdata Content Delivery Network (CDN) Article: Following the World Trade Center plume - Remote sensing helps track the drift of harmful pollutants following the World Trade Center collapse.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- How to cite ASDC data asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- NASA EOS ATB Documents: MISR asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/MISR_ATBDs.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/quality_summaries/L3_Products.pdf ↗
MISR Level 3 Component Products Quality Statement - December 1, 2005
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/version/pge12b.pdf ↗
ASDC overview of MISR Level 3 Albedo and Cloud Versioning
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/version/file_descriptions.pdf ↗
ASDC Overview of MISR File Naming and Versioning Conventions
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/terra-maneuvers.pdf ↗
ASDC Terra Spacecraft Loss of Accurate Orbit Data Record
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- ASDC Overview of MISR Data Versioning Index asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/version/index.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/1194/NASA_SOP_2008_Aerosols_over_Australia.pdf ↗
NASA Earthdata Content Delivery Network (CDN) Article: Aerosols over Australia - Researchers explore the links between atmospheric aerosols, climate change, and ultraviolet rays.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/dps/misr_dps.pdf ↗
Data Product Specification for MISR Data Products
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Overview of MISR Data at the ASDC, 2023 asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/ASDC_MISR_Overview_2023.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/dps/specific_products.pdf ↗
Data Product Specification for Specific Products MISR Data Products
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA21927 ↗
NASA JPL Images: Tropical Storm Harvey over Texas - After making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane the day before, striking images are captured by MISR as the storm maintained a dangerous tropical st
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/guide/misr_ov2.pdf ↗
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer Project Handbook
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- MISR Peer-Reviewed Publications misr.jpl.nasa.gov/publications/peerReviewed ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/1240/NASA_SOP_2009_Smoke_over_Athens.pdf ↗
NASA Earthdata Content Delivery Network (CDN) Article: Smoke over Athens - The effects of forest fires show up in a multi-satellite view of pollution.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/1257/NASA_SOP_2005_Cloudy_with_a_Chance_of_Driz… ↗
NASA Earthdata Content Delivery Network (CDN) Article: Cloudy with a chance of Drizzle - By analyzing data from the MISR instrument, scientists discover that a unique type of cloud formation is much m
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- MISR Science Data Product Guide - May 7, 2012 asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/guide/MISR_Science_Data_Product_Guide.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/MISR ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/tools/misr_paths.kml ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Virtual Directory for MIL3QALN_006 cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2873773976-LARC_CLOUD ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2873773976-LARC_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C2873773976-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search for MIL3QALN_6 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data)
download · from NASA CMR
- Resource l0dup05.larc.nasa.gov/misr_loc/misr_loc.html ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Resource misr.jpl.nasa.gov ↗
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- Resource terra.nasa.gov/about/terra-instruments/misr ↗
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/misr-level-3-component-global-albedo-seasonal-product-… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 3
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=8280f402-a43f-4aa6-aed4-068f81f63… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2873773976-LARC_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2873773976-LARC_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Albedo · Earth Observing System, Terra (AM-1) · Multi-Angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer · Particulates · Turbidity
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Imaging 75%
Provenance · 2 source records, 20 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C2873773976-LARC_CLOUD | 14 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 8280f402-a43f-4aa6-aed4-068f81f63828 | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:misr | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/air-quality/particulates | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/air-quality/turbidity | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-radiation/albedo | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:imaging | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:terra | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |