Instruments onboard Polar and Geostationary Satellites
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Description
Andreas Wirth gives an overview on the historical development of satellites, instruments and remote sensing scanning techniques.
Length: 30 minutes.
Content
This lecture presents an overview on the most commonly used instruments on board geostationary and polar orbiting satellites. The focus is laid on similarities and differences of instrument characteristics between these two types of satellites. Different types of instruments, covering the meteorological relevant spectrum, are shown. Active and passive instruments are explained as well as the presently used scanning principles.