McIDAS User's Guide
Version 2018.2

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EOS

Satellites

Terra and Aqua

Orbit Type

Polar

Instrument

MODIS

Resolution

0.25 km bands 1-2, 0.50 km bands 3-7, 1.0 km bands 8-38



Band
Central
Wavelength
(µm)


Primary Uses
1 0.6465 Land/Cloud Boundaries
2 0.8567 Land/Cloud Boundaries
3 0.4656 Land/Cloud Properties
4 0.5537 Land/Cloud Properties
5 1.2419 Land/Cloud Properties
6 1.6291 Land/Cloud Properties
7 2.1143 Land/Cloud Properties
8 0.4118 Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry
9 0.4421 Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry
10 0.4869 Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry
11 0.5297 Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry
12 0.5468 Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry
13* 0.6656 Low polarization Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry
14* 0.6767 Low polarization Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry
15 0.7464 Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry
16 0.8662 Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry
17 0.9041 Atmospheric Water Vapor
18 0.9353 Atmospheric Water Vapor
19 0.9361 Atmospheric Water Vapor
20 3.7882 Surface/Cloud Temperature
21 3.9921 Surface/Cloud Temperature
22 3.9719 Surface/Cloud Temperature
23 4.0567 Surface/Cloud Temperature
24 4.4732 Atmospheric Temperature
25 4.5454 Atmospheric Temperature
26 1.3820 Cirrus Cloud Water Vapor
27 6.7654 Cirrus Cloud Water Vapor
28 7.3367 Cirrus Cloud Water Vapor
29 8.5288 Cirrus Cloud Water Vapor
30 9.7344 Ozone
31 11.0186 Surface/Cloud Temperature
32 12.0325 Surface/Cloud Temperature
33 13.3651 Cloud Top Altitude
34 13.6835 Cloud Top Altitude
35 13.9133 Cloud Top Altitude
36 14.1957 Cloud Top Altitude
37* 0.6656 High polarization Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry
38* 0.6767 High polarization Ocean Color/Plankton/Biogeochemistry
* Channels 13B and 14B are labeled in McIDAS as bands 37 and 38, respectively

 

Satellite

Aqua

Orbit Type

Polar

Instrument

AIRS

Resolution

13.5 km

AIRS data contains 2378 bands (channels). They are not listed here because of space considerations. The website http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/AIRS/documentation.shtml and files AIRSBAND.DOC and SATBAND in the ~mcidas/data directory contain complete listings of the bands.


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