Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Overview

• Launched December 18, 1999 on Terra spacecraft in a sun-synchronous polar orbit
• Views the sunlit Earth simultaneously at nine widely-spaced angles
• Provides calibrated images in four spectral bands at each of the nine angles
• Spatial sampling of 275 and 1100 meters provided globally

• Orbits the Earth about 15 times each day
• 233 distinct orbits (called paths) are repeated every 16 days
• Near global coverage is obtained in 9 days at the equator, 2 at the poles
• MISR data products are available from February 24, 2000 in HDF-EOS format